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  2. Amaryllidaceae alkaloids belonging to different structural subgroups display activity against apoptosis-resistant cancer cells

Amaryllidaceae alkaloids belonging to different structural subgroups display activity against apoptosis-resistant cancer cells

  • J Nat Prod. 2010 Jul 23;73(7):1223-7. doi: 10.1021/np9008255.
Gwendoline Van Goietsenoven 1 Anna Andolfi Benjamin Lallemand Alessio Cimmino Delphine Lamoral-Theys Thierry Gras Amina Abou-Donia Jacques Dubois Florence Lefranc Véronique Mathieu Alexander Kornienko Robert Kiss Antonio Evidente
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  • 1 Laboratoire de Toxicologie and Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique, Toxicologie et Chimie Physique Appliquee, Institut de Pharmacie, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Abstract

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.

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