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Original Articles

Synthesis, characterization, and biological studies of diosgenyl analogs

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Pages 272-298 | Received 04 Mar 2016, Accepted 13 Jun 2016, Published online: 05 Jul 2016
 

Abstract

A series of diosgenyl analogs were prepared from diosgenin to evaluate their anticancer activity and antithrombotic property. Analog 4, which had a spiroketal structure with a 6-aminohexanoic acid residue, exhibited the highest potency against all five tumor cell lines. It significantly blocked tumor growth, induced cell apoptosis and autophagy, and regulated cellular calcium concentration, mitochondrial membrane potential, adenosine triphosphate, and cell cycle. In addition, fluorescence-tagged compounds indicated that the analogs could rapidly accumulate in the cytoplasm, but no specific localization in the nucleus of cancer cells was observed. Furthermore, preliminary structure–activity relationship studies demonstrated that spiroketal analogs exhibit better antithrombotic activity than furostanic analogs, which exhibit the opposite effect by promoting thrombosis. Our study indicates that compound 4 may be a promising anticancer drug candidate for cancer patients with thromboembolism.

Acknowledgments

We thank the study participants for their supports. The following are acknowledged for technical assistance: Yanyan Zhang and Zhihui Zhong for live cell imaging; Jie Zhang and Ling Bai for confocal microscope; Fang-Fang Wang and Fang-Fang Zhang for flow cytometer; Guang Yang for animal care; Jing-Yi Zhang for fluorescence microplate reader; Bin Zhou for chemiluminescence detection.

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