Discovery of new fluorescent thiazole-pyrazoline derivatives as autophagy inducers by inhibiting mTOR activity in A549 human lung cancer cells
Open Access
- 20 July 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cell Death & Disease
- Vol. 11 (7), 1-12
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-020-02746-w
Abstract
A series of fluorescent thiazole-pyrazoline derivatives was synthesized and their structures were characterized by(1)H NMR,C-13 NMR, and HRMS. Biological evaluation demonstrated that these compounds could effectively inhibit the growth of human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) A549 cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner in vitro and inhibit tumor growth in vivo. The structure-activity relationship (SAR) of the compounds was analyzed. Further mechanism research revealed they could induce autophagy and cell cycle arrest while had no influence on cell necrosis. Compound5einhibited the activity of mTOR via FKBP12, which could be reversed by 3BDO, an mTOR activator and autophagy inhibitor. Compound5einhibited growth, promoted autophagy of A549 cells in vivo. Moreover, compound5eshowed good selectivity with no influence on normal vascular endothelial cell growth and the normal chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) capillary formation. Therefore, our research provides potential lead compounds for the development of new anticancer drugs against human lung cancer.Keywords
Funding Information
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (2018GSF118201)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (81502948, 31871407, 31741083, 31870831)
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