Letter: Aryldiazirines. Potential reagents for photolabeling of biological receptor sites.
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The solvolysis of 4(5)-(2-amino-3-bromopropyl)imidazole.
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The reduction of beta-iodo azides. A stereospecific synthesis of aziridines.
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The smallest resonance energy transfer acceptor for tryptophan.
The utility of diazirine ligands as acceptors in resonance energy transfer (RET) distance measurements with tryptophan or tryptophan analogues as donor is reported. The principle is demonstrated for a diazirine derivative of d-mannitol, 2-azi-2-deoxy-d-arabino-hexitol, and single-tryptophan-containing mutants of the mannitol transporter, EIImtl, from E. coli. The Förster distance is 10 A for the tryptophan-diazirine donor-acceptor couple, allowing the measurement of distances up to 17 A. The versatility of tryptophan as an intrinsic spectroscopic probe in protein chemistry and the small size of the diazirine group makes this a very attractive donor-acceptor couple for accurate RET distance information in protein chemistry.
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Simple and versatile method for tagging phenyldiazirine photophores.
The first effective method for the introduction of a versatile substituent on 3-phenyl-3-trifluoromethyldiazirine has been developed. The simple preparation of a useful aldehyde intermediate allows easy access to various elaborated photoaffinity ligands, including a l-phenylalanine analog bearing a diazirine ring (TmdPhe). The asymmetric synthesis of TmdPhe was easily accomplished in gram quantities. Site-directed incorporation of this compound into the structure of a calmodulin-binding peptide using automated peptide synthesis afforded a photoreactive peptide that was successfully used for the specific labeling of calmodulin.
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Synthesis of 2,3-diaziridinyl-1,4-naphthoquinone sulfonate derivatives as potential antineoplastic agents.
A new class of 2,3-diaziridinyl-1,4-naphthoquinone sulfonates (27 compounds) has been synthesized and evaluated as potential antineoplastic agents. The most active compounds, benzenesulfonate 4, p-toluenesulfonate 5, p-methoxybenzenesulfonate 7,8-quinolinesulfonate 17, and 2-thiophenesulfonate 20, in the aromatic sulfonate series, at their optimum daily dosage level of 25 mg/kg X 6, produced 100%, 90%, 75%, 80%, and 100% 50-day survivors, respectively, of L1210 tumor-bearing mice. At a lower optimum daily dosage level of 20 mg/kg X 6, treatments with p-fluorobenzenesulfonate 11 and p-nitrobenzenesulfonate 15 resulted in 100% and 80% 50-day survivors. In the aliphatic sulfonate series, methanesulfonate 21 produced 80% 50-day survivors at a 10 mg/kg daily dosage level X 6. Benzenesulfonate 4, p-fluorobenzenesulfonate 11, 8-quinolinesulfonate 17, and 2-thiophenesulfonate 20 derivatives were also tested in mice bearing the B16 melanoma; these agents gave T/C X 100 values of 180, 182, 219, and 161, respectively, in this neoplastic cell system. Structure-activity relationships of compounds of this class are discussed.
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Synthesis of 5'-thymidinyl bis(1-aziridinyl)phosphinates as antineoplastic agents.
Reaction of 3'-acetylthymidine with phosphorus oxychloride in trimethyl phosphate yielded the phosphorodichloridate 5, which was subsequently reacted with aziridine, or 2,2-dimethylaziridine to give compounds 6 and 7, respectively. The 2,2-dimethylaziridine derivative 7 was considerably more active than 6 against leukemia L1210 and P-388 in mice but less active than the previously synthesized, simpler phosphinate derivatives 2 and 3. It appears that the thymidine moiety did not enable these compounds to use the nucleoside transport mechanism of the cells and also failed to increase the selectivity of the 2,2-dimethylaziridine analogues by interference with their binding to cholinesterase. Compound 7 strongly inhibited horse serum cholinesterase, while 6 was inactive.
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Synthesis and properties of bis(2,2-dimethylaziridinyl)phosphinic amides: a series of new antineoplastic agents.
In continuation of efforts to improve the antitumor selectivity of the 2,2-dimethylaziridine class of alkylating agents, a series of N-substituted bis(2,2-dimethyl-1-aziridinyl)phosphinic amides has been synthesized and evaluated. All of these compounds (3-15) were tested in vivo against leukemia P-388 in mice, where most of them caused significant increase of survival time at nontoxic dose levels. Some of the most active compounds were also tested against leukemia L1210, B16 melanoma, and colon 26 carcinoma; in the latter tests, the parent unsubstituted amide 3 appeared to show the highest antitumor activity. Since the dose-limiting toxicity of the clinically tested prototypes of this class of anticancer agents AB-132 (1) and AB-163 (2) had been found to be CNS toxicity attributable mainly to the inhibition of cholinesterase, the compounds were tested in vitro against the cholinesterases from horse serum, electric eel, and bovine erythrocytes, as well as in vivo for the inhibition of the cholinesterase present in the whole blood of mice. In all of these assays, the various members of the present series showed a wide range of anticholinesterase activities, ranging from almost zero (for 3) to even higher potency than that of the prototype 2. A similarly wide range of stability was observed toward hydrolytic ring opening of the 2,2-dimethylaziridine moieties. Several of the compounds, particularly 3, deserve further study.
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Neurochemistry of aging. 1. Toxins for an animal model of Alzheimer's disease.
A chronic deficiency in central cholinergic function has been implicated in a number of neuropsychiatric diseases including Alzheimer's disease. Until recently, animal models that simulate the neurochemical conditions that appear to cause these diseases in humans, as a result of a direct manipulation of the central cholinergic system, were not available. Over the past few years, however, we have been successful in developing a cholinotoxin, 1-ethyl-1-(2-hydroxyethyl)aziridinium chloride (AF64A), which has the potential to serve as a novel compound in developing animal models of human brain disorders in which a cholinergic hypofunction has been implicated. In this paper are described the design, synthesis, and testing of several structural analogues of AF64A as potential cholinotoxins, by evaluating them for their ability to inhibit high-affinity choline transport and their affinity toward brain muscarinic receptors. One of the compounds, 1-cyclopropyl-1-(2-hydroxyethyl)aziridinium chloride (i.e. aziridine analogue of 13) was found to have a remarkably high affinity (about 40 times higher than AF64A) toward brain muscarinic receptors.
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Isolation, synthesis, and antitumor evaluation of spirohydantoin aziridine, a mutagenic metabolite of spirohydantoin mustard.
Spirohydantoin mustard (SHM), a central nervous system directed nitrogen mustard with anticancer activity, was metabolized in the presence of mouse liver postmitochondrial supernatant (9000g fraction) to a nonpolar alkylating metabolite. The metabolite was isolated by thin-layer chromatography of chloroform or ethyl acetate extracts of incubation mixtures, and its structure was established by mass spectral analysis, synthesis, and cochromatography. The metabolite, spirohydantoin aziridine, was mutagenic for Salmonella typhimurium TA1535 in the Ames assay but inactive as an antitumor agent against P388 leukemia in vivo.
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Isomer-dependent cytostatic activity of bis(1-aziridinyl)cyclophosphazenes.
A number of recently synthesized mono- and bis(1-aziridinyl) derivatives of the inorganic ring systems (NPCl2)3 and (NPCl2)4 was tested for their cytostatic activity in vitro (L1210 and L5178Y cells) and in vivo (intraperitoneal leukemia L1210 in CDF1 mice). Generally, the nongeminal bis(1-aziridinyl) isomers (either trans or cis) appear to be potent tumor growth inhibitors in contrast to their geminally substituted and mono(1-aziridinyl)-substituted analogues. A relationship between the biological activity and the number of alkylating centers (i.e., P atoms carrying one or two aziridinyl groups) is proposed.
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Preparation and antitumor activity of 7-substituted 1,2-aziridinomitosenes.
7-Methoxy-1,2-aziridinomitosenes were prepared from mitomycin A and its N-methyl homologue by catalytic reduction followed by air oxidation. Treatment of these products with amines, including ammonia, ethylenimine, 2-methylethylenimine, propargylamine, and furfurylamine gave the corresponding 7-(substituted amino) derivatives. Screening of these compounds against P-388 leukemia in mice revealed some good activities. The more easily reduced compounds gave prolongation of life span comparable to that of mitomycin C, but their optimal doses were higher. Among these compounds, a methyl group on the aziridine nitrogen increased potency. The 7-amino derivatives, which were difficult to reduce to hydroquinones, were essentially inactive. The aziridinomitosenes were subjected to a Hansch-type analysis, but no statistically significant correlation was found.
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In the search for new anticancer drugs. 19. A predictive design of N,N:N',N':N'',N''-tri-1,2-ethanediylphosphorothioic triamide (TEPA) analogues.
The nitroxyl-labeled analogues of N,N:N',N':N",N"-tri-1,2-ethanediylphosphoric triamide (TEPA), N,N:N',N'-bis(1,2-ethanediyl)-N"-[[(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-oxypiperidi n-4- yl)amino]carbonyl]phosphoric triamide (5a) and N,N:N',N'-bis(1,2-ethanediyl)-N"-[[(2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-1-oxypyrrolid in-3- yl)amino]carbonyl]phosphoric triamide (11a), possess therapeutic indexes that are 8-12 times higher than those of thio-TEPA (1) and TEPA (2). The introduction of methyl groups into the aziridine ring, or the replacement of the nitroxyl moiety with hydroxylamine or amine derivatives, or with an adamantane moiety, results in compounds of lesser activity. An attempt is made to rationalize these results using a lipophilicity scale. A predictive design pattern is established.
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Neural networks applied to quantitative structure-activity relationship analysis.
An application of the neural network to quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analysis has been studied. The new method was compared with the linear multiregression analysis in various ways. It was found that the neural network can be a potential tool in the routine work of QSAR analysis. The mathematical relationship of operation between the neural network and the multiregression analysis was described. It was shown that the neural network can exceed the level of the linear multiregression analysis.
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31P NMR investigations of phosphoramide mustard: evaluation of pH control over the rate of intramolecular cyclization to an aziridinium ion and the hydrolysis of this reactive alkylator.
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Adrenoceptor blocking agents. 2. 2-(alpha-Hydroxyarylmethyl)-3,3-dimethylaziridines, a new class of selective beta2-adrenoceptor antagonists.
Threo- and erythro-2-(alpha-hydroxybenzyl)-3,3-dimethylaziridines (1a and 1b) and threo-2-[alpha-hydroxy(2-naphthyl)methyl]- and 2-[alpha-hydroxy(3,4-dichlorobenzyl)]-3,3-dimethylaziridines (1d and 1c) have been prepared as conformationally restricted analogues of beta-adrenoceptor blocking agents like dichloroisoproterenol (DCI) and pronethalol. The aziridine analogues 1 except possibly 1c are competitive antagonists of isoproterenol-induced response on a guinea pig tracheal chain preparation and the order of potency is 1d greater than 1a greater than or equal to 1b greater than propranolol greater than 1c. Unlike propranolol, these compounds have no effect on the isoproterenol-induced response on guinea pig auricles and no significant local anesthetic and antiarrhythmic activity. The aziridine analogues 1 represent the first of a new class of selective beta2-adrenoceptor blocking agents.
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Phosphorus-nitrogen compounds. 21. Murine oncolytic and antifertility effect of adamantylaziridine compounds.
P,P-Bis(1-aziridinyl)-N-adamantylphosphinic amide and N,N'-bis(ethylene)-P-(1-adamantyl)phosphonic diamide were synthesized as potential anticancer and male antifertility agents. Log P values (octanol-water) of the agents were determined and compared to calculated values. Both derivatives displayed intraperitoneal murine antileukemic activity and antifertility effects when given intraperitoneally and orally.
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Comparative stereochemistry in the aziridine ring openings of N-methylmitomycin A and 7-methoxy-1,2-(N-methylaziridino)mitosene.
A useful method was found for the conversion of mitomycin C into N-methylmitomycin A. The latter compound gave only two products on acid hydrolysis, the cis- and trans-1-hydroxy-7-methoxy-2-methylaminomitosenes. This selectivity allowed the cis--trans ratio to be quantitatively determined as 4:1. Such a predominance of the cis isomer is unexpected in view of the trans stereochemistry obtained in the opening of simple aziridines. In order to determine if the 9a-methoxy group of mitomycins controlled the direction of aziridine ring opening 7-methoxy-1,2-(N-methylaziridino)mitosene, which lacks this substituent, was prepared and hydrolyzed in acid. It gave the same two products in a 3:1 cis-trans ratio. In the induction of lambda-bacteriophage in Escherichia coli cis-1-hydroxy-7-methoxy-2-methylaminomitosene was more active than the corresponding trans isomer, but both of these compounds were less active than the aziridinomitosene or the mitomycins. Mitomycin A, mitomycin C, and N-methylmitomycin A were active against P388 leukemia in mice.
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