Issue 1, 2016

Trienamine catalyzed asymmetric synthesis and biological investigation of a cytochalasin B-inspired compound collection

Abstract

Due to their enhanced metabolic needs many cancers need a sufficient supply of glucose, and novel inhibitors of glucose import are in high demand. Cytochalasin B (CB) is a potent natural glucose import inhibitor which also impairs the actin cytoskeleton leading to undesired toxicity. With a view to identifying selective glucose import inhibitors we have developed an enantioselective trienamine catalyzed synthesis of a CB-inspired compound collection. Biological analysis revealed that indeed actin impairment can be distinguished from glucose import inhibition and led to the identification of the first selective glucose import inhibitor based on the basic structural architecture of cytochalasin B.

Graphical abstract: Trienamine catalyzed asymmetric synthesis and biological investigation of a cytochalasin B-inspired compound collection

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Nov 2015
Accepted
18 Nov 2015
First published
18 Nov 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016,14, 50-54

Trienamine catalyzed asymmetric synthesis and biological investigation of a cytochalasin B-inspired compound collection

M. Sellstedt, M. Schwalfenberg, S. Ziegler, A. P. Antonchick and H. Waldmann, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016, 14, 50 DOI: 10.1039/C5OB02272J

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