Synthesis and cytotoxicity studies of novel N-arylbenzo[h]quinazolin-2-amines

• Battini Veeraiah,
• Kishore Ramineni,
• Dabbugoddu Brahmaiah,
• Nangunoori Sampath Kumar,
• Hélène Solhi,
• Rémy Le Guevel,
• Chada Raji Reddy,
• Frédéric Justaud and
• René Grée

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2592–2598, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.218

• describe a short and efficient synthesis for this type of novel skeleton and to prepare a focused library for these targets C. Further, we will report results on their cytotoxic activities. Results and Discussion Chemical synthesis For the preparation of our targets, we selected a flexible strategy which

• ). Cells are grown at 37 °C, 5% CO2 in ATCC recommended media: DMEM for HuH-7, MDA-MB-231, MDA-MB-468 and fibroblast, EMEM for MCF7 and CaCo-2, McCoy’s for HCT-116 and RPMI for PC3 and NCI-H727. All culture media are supplemented by 10% of FBS, 1% of penicillin-streptomycin and 2 mM glutamine. Cytotoxic

• desired targets 4. Cytotoxic studies (IC50 determination) of selected quinazolines 4.a Supporting Information Supporting Information File 2: Supplementary Table S1; spectral and analytical data for compounds 4b–s as well as all copies of 1H and 13C NMR spectra of compounds 4. Acknowledgements We thank

Cell-free protein synthesis with technical additives – expanding the parameter space of in vitro gene expression

• Tabea Bartsch,
• Stephan Lütz and
• Katrin Rosenthal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2242–2253, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.192

• . CFPS show a high robustness against various additives including cytotoxic solvents, which was demonstrated by the synthesis of sfGFP and thscGAS-sfGFP. The combination of CFPS with activity assays would allow further parallelization and also miniaturization, for example into femtoliter-sized droplets

Natural resorcylic lactones derived from alternariol

• Joachim Podlech

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2171–2207, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.187

• V79 cells and in mouse lymphoma cells even at non-toxic or moderately cytotoxic concentrations [84]. AOH was further shown to cause strand-breaking in mammalian cell lines V79, HepG2, and HT-29 [85][86][87]. It was a significant finding by Marko et al. that AOH acts as a topoisomerase poison

• the detrimental effects of AOH [94][95][96]. AOH furthermore activated the nuclear translocation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) and the nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) [97]. The possible anticancer effects of AOH through its cytotoxic, antiinflammatory, genotoxic, mutagenic

• has been investigated thoroughly on its biological activities, especially on its toxicity [6][12]. Its phytotoxicity has already been noted in the first reports; it induced chlorosis when injected to the leaves of tobacco plants [110]. It turned out to be cytotoxic against HeLa and lymphoma L5178Y

Multicomponent syntheses of pyrazoles via (3 + 2)-cyclocondensation and (3 + 2)-cycloaddition key steps

• Ignaz Betcke,
• Alissa C. Götzinger,
• Maryna M. Kornet and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2024–2077, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.178

• , product 17a shows cytotoxic activity against Hep G2 hepatocellular carcinoma and MCF-7 breast carcinoma cell lines. The synthesis of 3,5-bis(arylamino)pyrazoles 21 involves the preparation of bisarylthioamides 22 via nucleophilic addition and double retro-Claisen condensation of isothiocyanates 19 and

Allostreptopyrroles A–E, β-alkylpyrrole derivatives from an actinomycete Allostreptomyces sp. RD068384

• Marwa Elsbaey,
• Naoya Oku,
• Mohamed S. A. Abdel-Mottaleb and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1981–1987, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.174

• : Allostreptomyces; β-alkylpyrrole; conformer; cytotoxic; DFT; 4-formylpyrrole-2-carboxylic acid; Introduction β-Alkylpyrroles are key structural motifs in biomolecules and functional organic materials [1]. For instance, β-alkylpyrroles are the main building blocks for the life-essential tetrapyrrole pigments

Solvent-dependent chemoselective synthesis of different isoquinolinones mediated by the hypervalent iodine(III) reagent PISA

• Ze-Nan Hu,
• Yan-Hui Wang,
• Jia-Bing Wu,
• Ze Chen,
• Dou Hong and
• Chi Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1914–1921, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.167

• activity and thus block cancer formation [2]. Alangiumkaloids A, an isoquinolinone alkaloid isolated from Alangium salviiforlium, was reported to exhibit cytotoxic activity against cancer cells [3]. In 2018, duvelisib, a dual inhibitor of phosphoinositide-3 kinases, was firstly approved by the FDA for the

The Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé reaction in its maturity: innovation and improvements since its 21st birthday (2019–2023)

• Cristina Martini,
• Muhammad Idham Darussalam Mardjan and
• Andrea Basso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1839–1879, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.162

Harnessing unprotected deactivated amines and arylglyoxals in the Ugi reaction for the synthesis of fused complex nitrogen heterocycles

• Javier Gómez-Ayuso,
• Pablo Pertejo,
• Tomás Hermosilla,
• Israel Carreira-Barral,
• Roberto Quesada and
• María García-Valverde

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1758–1766, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.154

• piperazinoquinazoline derivatives, a core found in fungal metabolites [25][26], systems with promising antitumour activity [27], as well as dipyrrolopiperazinone derivatives, substructure found in some alkaloids such as dibromophakellin or the palau’amine [28], which possess immunosuppressive and cytotoxic properties

Syntheses and medicinal chemistry of spiro heterocyclic steroids

• Laura L. Romero-Hernández,
• Ana Isabel Ahuja-Casarín,
• Penélope Merino-Montiel,
• Sara Montiel-Smith,
• José Luis Vega-Báez and
• Jesús Sandoval-Ramírez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1713–1745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.152

• on androgen-sensitive Shionogi cells, with weak binding to the androgen receptor detected. This suggests that the antiproliferative property may be attributed to antiandrogenic and cytotoxic activities. Moreover, the spiro derivatives did not show affinity to other steroid receptors, indicating a

• their antiproliferative activity against a panel of cancer cells, in which the activity of some compounds was close to that of cis-platinum in some cell lines. It should be noted that N-propylamide derivatives showed low cytotoxicity on cancer cells. Additionally, 167c did not present cytotoxic activity

Methyltransferases from RiPP pathways: shaping the landscape of natural product chemistry

• Maria-Paula Schröder,
• Isabel P.-M. Pfeiffer and
• Silja Mordhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1652–1670, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.147

• proteusin family of RiPPs. They are produced by the tunicate symbiont Candidatus Entotheonella factor and exhibit membrane activity against Gram-positive bacteria and are highly cytotoxic. Cytotoxicity was tested with murine leukaemia cells; polytheonamide A, B, and C showed IC50 values between 68 and 78 pg

• member of the channel-forming, cytotoxic proteusins. It is biosynthesised by Microvirgula aerodenitrificans. Like polytheonamide B, aeronamide A shows cytotoxic activity against HeLa cells, with an IC50 of 1.48 nM. AerE, the PoyE homologue, installs five methylations on the amides of Asn25, Asn31, Asn37

• towards the C-terminus, named "axial amphipathicity". Thus, this methylation is thought to play an important role in correct target membrane insertion and the associated cytotoxic effect [125]. TsrM is another cob(II)alamin-dependent C-MT (Figure 10). This enzyme is involved in the biosynthesis of

Mining raw plant transcriptomic data for new cyclopeptide alkaloids

• Draco Kriger,
• Michael A. Pasquale,
• Brigitte G. Ampolini and
• Jonathan R. Chekan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1548–1559, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.138

• bioactivities including analgesic, sedative, and cytotoxic [12][13][14]. In order to identify new potential burpitides, we searched the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) for Streptophyta (all land plants and most green algae) transcriptomes that could be assembled and examined with a custom hidden Markov model

Photoswitchable glycoligands targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa LecA

• Yu Fan,
• Ahmed El Rhaz,
• Stéphane Maisonneuve,
• Emilie Gillon,
• Maha Fatthalla,
• Franck Le Bideau,
• Guillaume Laurent,
• Samir Messaoudi,
• Anne Imberty and
• Juan Xie

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1486–1496, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.132

• ITC showed Kd values in the micromolar range with significant thermodynamic differences between E- and Z-azobenzene isomers, demonstrating the proof-of-concept of photomodulation of the ligand–lectin interactions. Results and Discussion Design of LecA photoswitchable ligands The cytotoxic LecA which

Synthesis of 4-functionalized pyrazoles via oxidative thio- or selenocyanation mediated by PhICl₂ and NH₄SCN/KSeCN

• Jialiang Wu,
• Haofeng Shi,
• Xuemin Li,
• Jiaxin He,
• Chen Zhang,
• Fengxia Sun and
• Yunfei Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1453–1461, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.128

• -inflammatory [6], antiviral [7], antibacterial [8], antifungal [9], cytotoxic [10], antioxidant [11], and analgesic [12] activities. For instance, celecoxib (I, Figure 1) (for treating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis), tepoxalin (II, Figure 1) (a veterinary painkiller used to relieve pain from muscle

• -ranging biological activities. Specifically, representative examples include fasicularin (IV, Figure 1), which possesses cytotoxic properties [21] and psammaplin B (V, Figure 1), which shows antimicrobial and mild tyrosine kinase inhibition activities [22]. In addition, Se-aspirin (VI, Figure 1) has been

Bismuth(III) triflate: an economical and environmentally friendly catalyst for the Nazarov reaction

• Manoel T. Rodrigues Jr.,
• Aline S. B. de Oliveira,
• Ralph C. Gomes,
• Amanda Soares Hirata,
• Lucas A. Zeoly,
• Hugo Santos,
• João Arantes,
• Catarina Sofia Mateus Reis-Silva,
• João Agostinho Machado-Neto,
• Leticia Veras Costa-Lotufo and
• Fernando Coelho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1167–1178, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.99

• achieved. Under both conditions, virtually no product mixtures were observed. Preliminary biological evaluation To investigate the cytotoxic activity of the indanone derivatives, in total 20 compounds were tested at a concentration of 5 and 50 μg/mL for 72 h in a panel of four histologically unrelated

Mild and efficient synthesis and base-promoted rearrangement of novel isoxazolo[4,5-b]pyridines

• Vladislav V. Nikol’skiy,
• Mikhail E. Minyaev,
• Maxim A. Bastrakov and
• Alexey M. Starosotnikov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1069–1075, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.94

• -oriented heterocyclic systems. Some examples of biologically active isoxazolo[4,5-b]pyridines with antibacterial [8], anticancer [12] and cytotoxic [10][13] acitivities. Biologically active analogs of compounds 13. X-ray crystal structures of compounds 12c (top left; the second crystallographically unique

Entry to new spiroheterocycles via tandem Rh(II)-catalyzed O–H insertion/base-promoted cyclization involving diazoarylidene succinimides

• Alexander Yanovich,
• Anastasia Vepreva,
• Ksenia Malkova,
• Grigory Kantin and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 561–569, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.48

• activity) [16], ramariolide A (antitubercular) [17], (+)-massarinolin A (antibacterial) [18], anemonin (antiparasitic) [19], (+)-pyrenolide D (cytotoxic) [20], and (+)-crassalactone D (antitumor) [21]. Synthetic or semisynthetic spiro Δα,β-butenolides have also shown a range of biological properties

Pseudallenes A and B, new sulfur-containing ovalicin sesquiterpenoid derivatives with antimicrobial activity from the deep-sea cold seep sediment-derived fungus Pseudallescheria boydii CS-793

• Zhen Ying,
• Xiao-Ming Li,
• Sui-Qun Yang,
• Hong-Lei Li,
• Xin Li,
• Bin-Gui Wang and
• Ling-Hong Meng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 470–478, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.42

• our attention. Several meroterpenoids, alkaloids, polyketides, and sesquiterpenoids from the species displayed various biological properties including anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and cytotoxic activities [7][8][9]. In the present work, two rare new examples of sulfur-containing ovalicin

Cycloaddition reactions of heterocyclic azides with 2-cyanoacetamidines as a new route to C,N-diheteroarylcarbamidines

• Pavel S. Silaichev,
• Tetyana V. Beryozkina,
• Vsevolod V. Melekhin,
• Valeriy O. Filimonov,
• Andrey N. Maslivets,
• Vladimir G. Ilkin,
• Wim Dehaen and
• Vasiliy A. Bakulev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 17–24, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.3

• experimentally observed. The base-catalyzed cycloaddition of 3,3-diaminoacrylonitriles 1 to azides 2, thus proceeds in a Cornforth-type fashion, which involves a triazole–triazole isomerization through ring opening, rotation of the amidine substituent around the single bond, and cyclization. Cytotoxic activity

• The cytotoxic activity of seven synthesized compounds 3b,d,e,g,h,l,m was studied. According to the results of the MTT test, IC50 values were calculated for these compounds (Table 2). The results obtained indicated that compounds 3b,e,g,h did not have a pronounced effect on the viability of cultured

• and elaboration of a novel tandem process, synthesis of starting building blocks and 21-st target compounds was made by chemistry team and founded by Russian Science Foundation, project number 23-13-00248. The study of cytotoxic effect of 7 compounds was financially supported by the Ministry of

Sulfur-containing spiroketals from Breynia disticha and evaluations of their anti-inflammatory effect

• Ken-ichi Nakashima,
• Naohito Abe,
• Masayoshi Oyama,
• Hiroko Murata and
• Makoto Inoue

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1604–1614, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.117

• revealed that compound 7 was cytotoxic to RAW 264.7 cells at concentrations above 25 μM (Figure 6d). Furthermore, 7 suppressed the LPS-induced increases in IL-1β and IL-6 transcriptional levels in a concentration-dependent manner from 1 or 2.5 μM (Figure 6e). Thus, while cytotoxicity was likely involved in

Cyclodextrins permeabilize DPPC liposome membranes: a focus on cholesterol content, cyclodextrin type, and concentration

• Ghenwa Nasr,
• Hélène Greige-Gerges,
• Sophie Fourmentin,
• Abdelhamid Elaissari and
• Nathalie Khreich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1570–1579, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.115

• can subsequently achieve the highest solubilization of CHOL [27], while the low-substituted derivatives (CRYSMEB in our case) were less cytotoxic and maintained the integrity of endothelial cells assuming a lower affinity to CHOL membrane compared to the other derivatives [23]. Furthermore, the

Synthesis and biological evaluation of Argemone mexicana-inspired antimicrobials

• Jessica Villegas,
• Bryce C. Ball,
• Katelyn M. Shouse,
• Caleb W. VanArragon,
• Ashley N. Wasserman,
• Hannah E. Bhakta,
• Allen G. Oliver,
• Danielle A. Orozco-Nunnelly and
• Jeffrey M. Pruet

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1511–1524, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.108

• berberine variants displayed promising preliminary results for cytotoxic effects against tumor cells. Zones of inhibition for 1 mg of evaporated methanolic (MeOH) extracts from various parts of the A. mexicana plant against a panel of 12 microorganisms. The mean zone of inhibition in millimeters is shown

Synthesis of ether lipids: natural compounds and analogues

• Marco Antônio G. B. Gomes,
• Alicia Bauduin,
• Chloé Le Roux,
• Romain Fouinneteau,
• Wilfried Berthe,
• Mathieu Berchel,
• Hélène Couthon and
• Paul-Alain Jaffrès

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1299–1369, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.96

Two new lanostanoid glycosides isolated from a Kenyan polypore Fomitopsis carnea

• Winnie Chemutai Sum,
• Sherif S. Ebada,
• Didsanutda Gonkhom,
• Cony Decock,
• Rémy Bertrand Teponno,
• Josphat Clement Matasyoh and
• Marc Stadler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1161–1169, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.84

• ). The structures of the isolated compounds were established based on HRESIMS and extensive 1D and 2D NMR experiments. All the isolated compounds were assessed for their antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities. Among the tested compounds, forpinioside B (1) exhibited significant antimicrobial activity

• medicine (TCM) [6]. Studies on other Ganoderma species have also reported antidiabetic [7] and cytotoxic [8] effects of these compounds. Another widely used oriental medicine polypore Wolfiporia (also referred to under the synonym ‘Poria’ in the literature) cocos, has proved to a beneficial source of

• ) exhibited nitric oxide (NO) and/or cytotoxic effects, respectively [12][13]. The genus Fomitopsis was first coined by Karsten typified by F. pinicola [14]. Our current study fungus F. carnea was reported for the first time from Japan in 1943 by Blume and Nees [15]. Later, Ryvarden and Johansen in 1980 [16

Non-peptide compounds from Kronopolites svenhedini (Verhoeff) and their antitumor and iNOS inhibitory activities

• Yuan-Nan Yuan,
• Jin-Qiang Li,
• Hong-Bin Fang,
• Shao-Jun Xing,
• Yong-Ming Yan and
• Yong-Xian Cheng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 789–799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.59

• compounds, cytotoxic and anti-inflammatory properties were evaluated. In particular, a mouse pancreatic cancer cell line (Panc02-h7-GP-GFP) was used to determine cytotoxicity. Additionally, LPS-induced pro-inflammatory expression of iNOS and COX-2 in RAW264.7 cells was evaluated. Antitumor activity of

Nucleophile-induced ring contraction in pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzothiazines: access to pyrrolo[2,1-b][1,3]benzothiazoles

• Ekaterina A. Lystsova,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Andrey N. Maslivets and
• Ekaterina E. Khramtsova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 646–657, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.46

• anticonvulsant agents had been developed based on PBTA derivatives (Figure 1) [2]. In addition, series of PBTAs (Figure 1) were found to exhibit antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant, and cytotoxic activities [3][4]. Several strategies have been developed for the synthesis of PBTA derivatives [2][3][4][5][6][7