title: Conceptually new low-calcemic oxime analogues of the hormone 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3): synthesis and biological testing.
abstract: New chemical entities 16-ene-25-ketone 2b and the corresponding oxime 3b and oxime ether 4b, analogues of natural calcitriol (1), were rationally designed and synthesized on a milligram scale. Chemical introduction of the oxime ether functionality in analogue 4b was successful via direct oximation of an intact vitamin D conjugated triene system. Even though all three analogues are at least as antiproliferative in vitro as calcitriol (1) even at physiologically relevant low nanomolar concentrations, only side chain ketone 2b is more transcriptionally potent than calcitriol (1). Although oxime O-methyl ether 4b lacks the traditional side chain hydrogen bond-donating OH group of the natural hormone and lacks also the oxime-NOH group of analogue 3b, surprisingly, oxime ether 4b retains 20% of the transcriptional potency of natural calcitriol (1). In terms of in vivo toxicity (hypercalcemia), ketone 2b is strongly calcemic in rats, whereas oxime 3b and oxime ether 4b are considerably less calcemic (i.e., safer) than calcitriol (1).
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA. ghp@jhu.edu
authors.forename: Gary H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Posner
authors.forename: Bethany A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Halford
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Peleg
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dolan
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Kensler
mesh_terms: D000284:Administration, Oral; D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D002117:Calcitriol / Q000032:analysis* / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000139:chemically induced; D015603:Keratinocytes / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D010091:Oximes / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D010091:Oximes; D002117:Calcitriol