Design synthesis and biological evaluation of 2H-benzob14 oxazine derivatives as hypoxia targeted compounds for cancer therapeutics

摘要

A small library of 2H-benzo[b][1,4] oxazine derivative was synthesized and their biological activity was tested on HepG2 cells under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. From preliminary screening, we found compound >10 and >11 specifically inhibit hypoxic cancer cell growth IC50 87 ± 1.8 μM and IC50 10 ± 3.7 μM while sparing ‘normoxic’ cells IC50 >600 M and >1 mM (not applicable), respectively. We tested the effect of >10 on MTT, clonogenic and hypoxia induced genes. The MTT correlates with clonogenic assays and most importantly compound >10 down regulates hypoxia induces genes (HIF-1α, P21 and VEGF) appropriately. We are in the process to explore the molecular mechanism of action of oxazine derivative compounds on hypoxia tumor cells.