Amaryllidaceae alkaloids belonging to different structural subgroups display activity against apoptosis-resistant cancer cells.
Fifteen Amaryllidaceae alkaloids (1-15) were evaluated for their antiproliferative activities against six distinct cancer cell lines. Several of these natural products were found to have low micromolar antiproliferative potencies. The log P values of these compounds did not influence their observed activity. When active, the compounds displayed cytostatic, not cytotoxic activity, with the exception of pseudolycorine (3), which exhibited cytotoxic profiles. The active compounds showed similar efficacies toward cancer cells irrespective of whether the cell lines were responsive or resistant to proapoptotic stimuli. Altogether, the data from the present study revealed that lycorine (1), amarbellisine (6), haemanthamine (14), and haemanthidine (15) are potentially useful chemical scaffolds to generate further compounds to combat cancers associated with poor prognoses, especially those naturally resistant to apoptosis, such as glioblastoma, melanoma, non-small-cell lung, and metastatic cancers.
Van Goietsenoven
Gwendoline
G
Laboratoire de Toxicologie and Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique, Toxicologie et Chimie Physique Appliquee, Institut de Pharmacie, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Andolfi
Anna
A
Lallemand
Benjamin
B
Cimmino
Alessio
A
Lamoral-Theys
Delphine
D
Gras
Thierry
T
Abou-Donia
Amina
A
Dubois
Jacques
J
Lefranc
Florence
F
Mathieu
Véronique
V
Kornienko
Alexander
A
Kiss
Robert
R
Evidente
Antonio
A
D047151:Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects; D019008:Drug Resistance, Neoplasm / Q000187:drug effects*; D004354:Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor; D006801:Humans; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010617:Phenanthridines / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000494:pharmacology*
D047151:Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic; D010617:Phenanthridines; C027861:pseudolycorine; C083906:hemanthidine; C462104:hemanthamine; C015330:lycorine