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ArticleScientific reports2016

Design and Synthesis of Potent in Vitro and in Vivo Anticancer Agents Based on 1-(3',4',5'-Trimethoxyphenyl)-2-Aryl-1H-Imidazole.

Romeo Romagnoli, Pier Giovanni Baraldi, Filippo Prencipe, Paola Oliva, Stefania Baraldi, Mojgan Aghazadeh Tabrizi, Luisa Carlota Lopez-Cara, Salvatore Ferla, Andrea Brancale, Ernest Hamel and 5 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Romeo RomagnoliDipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.
Pier Giovanni BaraldiDipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.
Filippo PrencipeDipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.
Paola OlivaDipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.
Stefania BaraldiDipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.
Mojgan Aghazadeh TabriziDipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.
Luisa Carlota Lopez-CaraDepartamento de Quimica Organica y Farmaceutica, Facultad de Farmacia, Campus de Cartuja s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain.
Salvatore FerlaSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB, UK.
Andrea BrancaleSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB, UK.
Ernest HamelScreening Technologies Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA.
Roberto RoncaDipartimento di Medicina molecolare e traslazionale Unità di oncologia sperimentale ed immunologia. Università di Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
Roberta BortolozziDipartimento di Salute della Donna e del Bambino, Laboratorio di Oncoematologia, Università di Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Elena MariottoDipartimento di Salute della Donna e del Bambino, Laboratorio di Oncoematologia, Università di Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Giuseppe BassoDipartimento di Salute della Donna e del Bambino, Laboratorio di Oncoematologia, Università di Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Giampietro ViolaDipartimento di Salute della Donna e del Bambino, Laboratorio di Oncoematologia, Università di Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy.
University of Ferrara · ITUniversity of Padua · ITCardiff University · GBNational Cancer Institute · USUniversidad de Granada · ESUniversity of Brescia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A novel series of tubulin polymerization inhibitors, based on the 1-(3',4',5'-trimethoxyphenyl)-2-aryl-1H-imidazole scaffold and designed as cis-restricted combretastatin A-4 analogues, was synthesized with the goal of evaluating the effects of various patterns of substitution on the phenyl at the 2-position of the imidazole ring on biological activity. A chloro and ethoxy group at the meta- and para-positions, respectively, produced the most active compound in the series (4o), with IC50 values of 0.4-3.8 nM against a panel of seven cancer cell lines. Except in HL-60 cells, 4o had greater antiproliferative than CA-4, indicating that the 3'-chloro-4'-ethoxyphenyl moiety was a good surrogate for the CA-4 B-ring. Experiments carried out in a mouse syngenic model demonstrated high antitumor activity of 4o, which significantly reduced the tumor mass at a dose thirty times lower than that required for CA-4P, which was used as a reference compound. Altogether, our findings suggest that 4o is a promising anticancer drug candidate that warrants further preclinical evaluation.

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AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationCell SurvivalGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHeLa CellsHL-60 CellsHT29 CellsHumansJurkat CellsMCF-7 CellsMiceModels, MolecularMolecular StructureNeoplasmsAntineoplastic AgentsfosbretabulinStilbenesTubulin Modulators

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PMID27216165
PMCPMC4877593
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