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ChemMedChem 2018-Jul

Dichlorophenylacrylonitriles as AhR Ligands That Display Selective Breast Cancer Cytotoxicity in vitro.

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Jennifer R Baker
Jayne Gilbert
Stefan Paula
Xiao Zhu
Jennette A Sakoff
Adam McCluskey

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Knoevenagel condensation of 3,4-dichloro- and 2,6-dichlorophenylacetonitriles gave a library of dichlorophenylacrylonitriles. Our leads (Z)-2-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-3-(1H-pyrrol-2-yl)acrylonitrile (5) and (Z)-2-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl)acrylonitrile (6) displayed 0.56±0.03 and 0.127±0.04 μm growth inhibition (GI50 ) and 260-fold selectivity for the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line. A 2,6-dichlorophenyl moiety saw a 10-fold decrease in potency; additional nitrogen moieties (-NO2 ) enhanced activity (Z)-2-(2,6-dichloro-3-nitrophenyl)-3-(2-nitrophenyl)acrylonitrile (26) and (Z)-2-(2,6-dichloro-3-nitrophenyl)-3-(3-nitrophenyl)acrylonitrile (27), with the corresponding -NH2 analogues (Z)-2-(3-amino-2,6-dichlorophenyl)-3-(2-aminophenyl)acrylonitrile (29) and (Z)-2-(3-amino-2,6-dichlorophenyl)-3-(3-aminophenyl)acrylonitrile (30) being more potent. Despite this, both 29 (2.8±0.03 μm) and 30 (2.8±0.03 μm) were found to be 10-fold less cytotoxic than 6. A bromine moiety effected a 3-fold enhancement in solubility with (Z)-3-(5-bromo-1H-pyrrol-2-yl)-2-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)acrylonitrile 18 relative to 5 at 211 μg mL-1 . Modeling-guided synthesis saw the introduction of 4-aminophenyl substituents (Z)-3-(4-aminophenyl)-2-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)acrylonitrile (35) and (Z)-N-(4-(2-cyano-2-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)vinyl)phenyl)acetamide (38), with respective GI50 values of 0.030±0.014 and 0.034±0.01 μm. Other analogues such as 35 and 36 were found to have sub-micromolar potency against our panel of cancer cell lines (HT29, colon; U87 and SJ-G2, glioblastoma; A2780, ovarian; H460, lung; A431, skin; Du145, prostate; BE2-C, neuroblastoma; MIA, pancreas; and SMA, murine glioblastoma), except compound 38 against the U87 cell line. A more extensive evaluation of 38 ((Z)-N-(4-(2-cyano-2-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)vinyl)phenyl)acetamide) in a panel of drug-resistant breast carcinoma cell lines showed 10-206 nm potency against MDAMB468, T47D, ZR-75-1, SKBR3, and BT474. Molecular Operating Environment docking scores showed a good correlation between predicted binding efficiencies and observed MCF-7 cytotoxicity. This supports the use of this model in the development of breast-cancer-specific drugs.

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