title: Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of thiophene analogues of chalcones.
abstract: Chalcones are characterized by possessing an enone moiety between two aromatic rings. A series of chalcone-like agents, in which the double bond of the enone system is embedded within a thiophene ring, were synthesized and evaluated for antiproliferative activity and inhibition of tubulin assembly and colchicine binding to tubulin. The replacement of the double bond with a thiophene maintains antiproliferative activity and therefore must not significantly alter the relative conformation of the two aryl rings. The synthesized compounds were found to inhibit the growth of several cancer cell lines at nanomolar to low micromolar concentrations. In general, all compounds having significant antiproliferative activity inhibited tubulin polymerization with an IC(50)<2microM. Several of these compounds caused K562 cells to arrest in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Ferrara, Via Fossato di Mortara 17-19, 44100 Ferrara, Italy. rmr@unife.it
authors.forename: Romeo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Romagnoli
authors.forename: Pier Giovanni
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Baraldi
authors.forename: Maria Dora
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Carrion
authors.forename: Carlota Lopez
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Cara
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Cruz-Lopez
authors.forename: Delia
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Preti
authors.forename: Manlio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tolomeo
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grimaudo
authors.forename: Antonella
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Di Cristina
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zonta
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Balzarini
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brancale
authors.forename: Taradas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sarkar
authors.forename: Ernest
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hamel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D001665:Binding Sites; D001921:Brain; D002417:Cattle; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000187:drug effects; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D049109:Cell Proliferation / Q000187:drug effects; D047188:Chalcones / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D003078:Colchicine / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D015195:Drug Design; D004354:Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor; D016195:G2 Phase / Q000187:drug effects; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D020014:K562 Cells; D051379:Mice; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013876:Thiophenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D014404:Tubulin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D050257:Tubulin Modulators / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D047188:Chalcones; D013876:Thiophenes; D014404:Tubulin; D050257:Tubulin Modulators; D003078:Colchicine