Steroids with a nitrogen-containing heterocycle in the side chain are known as effective inhibitors of androgen signaling and/or testosterone biosynthesis, thus showing beneficial effects for the treatment of prostate cancer. In this work, a series of 3β-hydroxy-5-ene steroids, containing an isoxazole fragment in their side chain, was synthesized. The key steps included the preparation of Weinreb amide, its conversion to acetylenic ketones, and the 1,2- or 1,4-addition of hydroxylamine, depending on the solvent used. The biological activity of the obtained compounds was studied in a number of tests, including their effects on 17α-hydroxylase and 17,20-lyase activity of human CYP17A1 and the ability of selected compounds to affect the downstream androgen receptor signaling. Three derivatives diminished the transcriptional activity of androgen receptor and displayed reasonable antiproliferative activity. The candidate compound, 24j (17R)-17-((3-(2-hydroxypropan-2-yl)isoxazol-5-yl)methyl)-androst-5-en-3β-ol, suppressed the androgen receptor signaling and decreased its protein level in two prostate cancer cell lines, LNCaP and LAPC-4. Interaction of compounds with CYP17A1 and the androgen receptor was confirmed and described by molecular docking.
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- androgenní receptory metabolismus MeSH
- antitumorózní látky * chemie MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- nádorové buněčné linie MeSH
- nádory prostaty * farmakoterapie metabolismus MeSH
- simulace molekulového dockingu MeSH
- steroid-17-alfa-hydroxylasa metabolismus MeSH
- steroidy farmakologie terapeutické užití MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Late stage CH functionalization is a powerful tool for modification of natural compounds. Herein we report that the rhodium-catalyzed reaction of brassinosteroids with aryloxysulfonamides proceeds regio- and stereoselectively at C15 position. The derivative obtained from 24-epibrassinolide was easily transformed to the conjugate with a BODIPY dye bearing unaffected functional groups of the native brassinosteroid.
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are plant-specific steroid hormones that play essential roles in the regulation of many important physiological processes in plant life. Their extremely low concentrations (~pmoles/g FW) in plant tissue and huge differences in polarity of individual members within the BR family hamper their detection and quantification. To address this problem, an immunoaffinity sorbent with broad specificity and high capacity for different BR metabolites containing a monoclonal antibody (mAb) against a BR spacer (20S)-2α,3α-dihydroxy-7-oxa-7α-homo-5α-pregnane-6-one-20 carboxylic acid (BR4812) was used for the rapid and highly selective isolation of endogenous BRs containing a 2α,3α-diol in ring A from minute plant samples. This enrichment procedure was successfully applied as a sample preparation method prior to quantitative analysis of BRs in real plant tissues by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS). Use of immunoaffinity chromatography (IAC) increased the sensitivity of the UHPLC-MS/MS analysis owing to improvements in the BR signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) and matrix factor (MF). Although MF values of BRs analyzed in classical samples ranged from 8.9% to 47.4%, MF values for the IAC purified samples reached 44.5-96.6%. Thus, the developed IAC-UHPLC-MS/MS approach was shown to be a simple, robust, effective and extremely fast procedure requiring minute amounts of plant samples suitable for the quantitative profiling of many BR metabolites, helping to overcome the major problems associated with their determination in very complex plant matrices.
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- Brassica napus chemie MeSH
- brassinosteroidy analýza izolace a purifikace MeSH
- chromatografie afinitní metody MeSH
- imobilizační protilátky chemie MeSH
- imunosorbenty chemie MeSH
- regulátory růstu rostlin analýza izolace a purifikace MeSH
- rostlinné extrakty chemie MeSH
- tandemová hmotnostní spektrometrie metody MeSH
- vysokoúčinná kapalinová chromatografie metody MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Three BS-BODIPY (brassinosteroids-4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene) conjugates were synthesized and their fluorescent and immunological properties were investigated. Two of the conjugates, having present all the functional groups characteristic of BS, were shown to be potentially useful as biological probes to study involvement of BS into physiological processes in living cells.
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- brassinosteroidy chemie MeSH
- sloučeniny boru chemie MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
