Title

Syntheses And Biological Activities Of Disaccharide Daunorubicins

Abstract

Carbohydrate moiety is found in many anticancer nature products. To explore the carbohydrate moiety of daunorubicin in enhancing anticancer efficacy, several daunorubicin derivatives bearing disaccharide (1-8) have been synthesized. Their cytotoxicities were tested in leukemia K562 and colon cancer SW620 cells. Topoisomerase II (topo II) poisoning was performed with the in vivo complex of topoisomerase bioassay. In both cell lines, compounds with various terminal 2,6-dideoxy sugars (compounds 1, 3, 5, and 8) showed 30- to 60-fold higher anticancer activity than compounds with 2-deoxy- or 6-deoxy sugar (compounds 6 and 7). Compounds with an α-linkage between two sugar units (compound 3) showed 35-fold higher anticancer activity than compounds with a β-linkage (compound 4). In addition, the anticancer activities of these compounds correlated with their ability to target topo II mediated genomic DNA damage in vivo. Compounds 1 and 3 with 2,6-dideoxy sugars produced more covalent topo-DNA complex than compounds with 2-deoxy sugar (6) and 6-deoxy sugar (7). Compounds with an α-configuration of terminal 2,6-dideoxy sugar (compounds 1 and 3) showed higher topo II poisoning than their counterparts with the β-configuration (compounds 2 and 4). These results indicate that sugar moieties in daunorubicin play a significant role in its anticancer activity and topo II inhibition. The second sugar of disaccharide daunorubicin should possess 2,6-dideoxy with α-linkage to the first sugar to exhibit better anticancer activity. © 2005 American Chemical Society.

Publication Date

8-11-2005

Publication Title

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volume

48

Issue

16

Number of Pages

5269-5278

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1021/jm050144u

Socpus ID

23444437497 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/23444437497

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