6-Aryl substituted 4-(4-cyanomethyl) phenylamino quinazolines as a new class of isoform-selective PI3K-alpha inhibitors

European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
2016.0

Abstract

Isoform-selective inhibition of PI3K-α has been identified as one of the important strategy to discover effective and safer anticancer agents. Herein, we report discovery of 'quinazoline' as a new chemotype for isoform-selective PI3K-α inhibitors. The indolyl substituted quinazoline 9u displayed selective inhibition of PI3K-α with IC50 value of 0.201 μM with >49.7 over PI3K-β, and δ-isoforms. Quinazoline 9u also inhibited PI3K-γ with IC50 value of 0.750 μM (3.7 fold selective for α-versus γ-isoform). The isoform-selective inhibition was also demonstrated at protein-expression level by western-blot analysis in MCF-7 and PC-3 cells. The isoform-selective inhibitor 9u also showed inhibition of phospho-Akt levels in these cells. Quinazoline 9u showed in-vitro cytotoxicity in MCF-7 cells with GI50 of 7 μM, which was highly selective for cancer cells, as it was non-toxic to normal cells fR2, HEK293 and hGF (GI50 > 50 μM). Compound 9u at 25 mg/kg dose showed 62 and 37% TGI in Ehrlich Ascites Carcinoma and Ehrlich Solid Tumor mice models. In nutshell, our efforts to identify potent and efficacious PI3K inhibitors resulted in the discovery of a new class of isoform-selective PI3K-α inhibitors possessing promising in-vivo anticancer activity.

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