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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-5-10
pubmed:abstractText
The growing importance of functionalized tricyclic rings, e.g., cyclopropyl and aziridine, in numerous organic biomolecules led us to develop syntheses of novel actinomycin D (AMD) analogues substituted with aziridine and cyclopropyl functions. Reaction of 7-hydroxyactinomycin D with 1-aziridineethyl iodide and bromomethylcycloporopane afforded the desired 7-[2-(1-aziridinyl)ethoxy] and cyclopropylmethoxy analogues, respectively. Calf thymus DNA binding of these analogues was comparable to that of AMD as examined by UV-vis difference spectral measurements, CD techniques, and relaxation of supercoiled closed circular SV40 DNA, indicating an intercalative mode of binding to the DNA duplex. Thermal denaturation of DNA experiments employing higher temperatures than room temperature exhibit a thermal lability of the DNA analogue complexes, suggestive of a probable covalent bond formation with DNA bases. The analogues were found to be 1/4-1/40 as cytotoxic to human lymphoblastic CCRF-CEM leukemia and B16 melanoma cells in vitro as AMD, with ID50 values in the nanomolar concentration range.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0022-2623
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
790-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Synthesis and biological properties of actinomycin D chromophoric analogues substituted at carbon 7 with aziridine and cyclopropyl functions.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts 02118.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't