Abstract:
:Cervical cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women in developing countries. Therefore, development of new chemotherapeutic agents is required. Unlike normal cells, cancer cells contain elevated copper levels which play an integral role in angiogenesis. Thus, targeting copper via copper-specific chelators in cancer cells can serve as effective anticancer strategy. In this work, a copper chelator pregnenolone acetate nucleus-based tetrazole derivative (ligand-L) was synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, ESI-MS, 1H NMR and 13C NMR. DNA binding ability of ligand-L was studied using UV-Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy. Fluorescence spectroscopy studies reveal that quenching constant of ligand-l-DNA and ligand-L-Cu(II) were found to be 7.4 × 103 M-1 and 8.8 × 103 M-1, respectively. In vitro toxicity of ligand-L was studied on human cervical cancer C33A cancer cells. Results showed that ligand-L exhibit significant cytotoxic activity against cervical cancer C33A cells with IC50 value 5.0 ± 1.8 µM. Further, it was found that ligand-L cytotoxicity is due to redox cycling of copper to generate ROS which leads to DNA damage and apoptosis. In conclusion, this is the report where we synthesized pregnenolone acetate-based tetrazole derivative against C33A cells that targets cellular copper to induce pro-oxidant death in cancer cells. These findings will provide significant insights into the development of new chemical molecules with better copper chelating and pro-oxidant properties against cancer cells.
journal_name
Bioorg Chemjournal_title
Bioorganic chemistryauthors
Zafar A,Singh S,Ahmad S,Khan S,Imran Siddiqi M,Naseem Idoi
10.1016/j.bioorg.2019.03.031subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-06-01 00:00:00pages
276-290eissn
0045-2068issn
1090-2120pii
S0045-2068(18)31423-8journal_volume
87pub_type
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