Smenamides A and B,Chlorinated Peptide/Polyketide Hybrids Containing a Dolapyrrolidinone Unit from the Caribbean Sponge Smenospongia aurea. Evaluation of Their Role as Leads in Antitumor Drug Research

An in-depth study of the secondary metabolites contained in the Caribbean sponge Smenospongia aurea led to the isolation of smenamide A (1) and B (2), hybrid peptide/polyketide compounds containing a dolapyrrolidinone unit. Their structures were elucidated using high-resolution ESI-MS/MS and homo- and heteronuclear 2D NMR experiments. Structures of smenamides suggested that they are products of the cyanobacterial metabolism, and 16S rRNA metagenomic analysis detected Synechococcus spongiarum as the only cyanobacterium present in S. aurea. Smenamides showed potent cytotoxic activity at nanomolar levels on lung cancer Calu-1 cells, which for compound 1 is exerted through a clear pro-apoptotic mechanism. This makes smenamides promising leads for antitumor drug design.     

海南粗榧内生真菌F127发酵液的次级代谢产物研究

对海南粗榧(Cephalotaxus hainanensis Li.)内生真菌F127发酵液化学组分进行研究。用多种色谱技术对F127代谢产物进行分离纯化,以LC-MS、ESI-MS和超导核磁共振分析鉴定化合物结构,最后采用MTT法测定化合物的抗肿瘤活性。从海南粗榧内生真菌F127的发酵液中分离得到5个单体化合物,分别鉴定为oblongolide T(1)、sorbicillin(2)、邻苯二甲酸二丁酯(3)、phomopsolide B(4)、6,8-二羟基-3-甲基-3,4-二氢异香豆素(5),且化合物1、4、5对肿瘤细胞K562、NB4、HL-60、Hep G-2和Lovo表现出不同抑制活性。化合物4对5株肿瘤细胞均表现出抑制活性,对K562、NB4、HL-60抑制效果显著,IC50值分别为3.35、0.014和0.16μg/m L,对Hep G-2和Lo Vo只有温和抑制作用;化合物1对K562、NB4、HL-60抑制作用良好,IC50值分别为51.82、54.25和29.31μg/m L;化合物5对NB4和Hep G-2则具有一定抑制活性;化合物2和3对测试细胞株未表现出抑制活性。5个化合物均是首次从海南粗榧内生真菌中分离得到,并首次报道了化合物1、4对K562、NB4、HL-60的优良细胞毒活性,为进一步研究海南粗榧内生真菌中的活性天然产物奠定了基础。     

Marine Antitumor Peptide Dolastatin 10: Biological Activity,Structural Modification and Synthetic Chemistry

Dolastatin 10 (Dol-10), a leading marine pentapeptide isolated from the Indian Ocean mollusk Dolabella auricularia, contains three unique amino acid residues. Dol-10 can effectively induce apoptosis of lung cancer cells and other tumor cells at nanomolar concentration, and it has been developed into commercial drugs for treating some specific lymphomas, so it has received wide attention in recent years. In vitro experiments showed that Dol-10 and its derivatives were highly lethal to common tumor cells, such as L1210 leukemia cells (IC₅₀ = 0.03 nM), small cell lung cancer NCI-H69 cells (IC₅₀ = 0.059 nM), and human prostate cancer DU-145 cells (IC₅₀ = 0.5 nM), etc. With the rise of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), milestone progress was made in clinical research based on Dol-10. A variety of ADCs constructed by combining MMAE or MMAF (Dol-10 derivatives) with a specific antibody not only ensured the antitumor activity of the drugs themself but also improved their tumor targeting and reduced the systemic toxicity. They are currently undergoing clinical trials or have been approved for marketing, such as Adcetris^®, which had been approved for the treatment of anaplastic large T-cell systemic malignant lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma. Dol-10, as one of the most medically valuable natural compounds discovered up to now, has brought unprecedented hope for tumor treatment. It is particularly noteworthy that, by modifying the chemical structure of Dol-10 and combining with the application of ADCs technology, Dol-10 as a new drug candidate still has great potential for development. In this review, the biological activity and chemical work of Dol-10 in the advance of antitumor drugs in the last 35 years will be summarized, which will provide the support for pharmaceutical researchers interested in leading exploration of antitumor marine peptides.     

Can Some Marine-Derived Fungal Metabolites Become Actual Anticancer Agents?

Marine fungi are known to produce structurally unique secondary metabolites, and more than 1000 marine fungal-derived metabolites have already been reported. Despite the absence of marine fungal-derived metabolites in the current clinical pipeline, dozens of them have been classified as potential chemotherapy candidates because of their anticancer activity. Over the last decade, several comprehensive reviews have covered the potential anticancer activity of marine fungal-derived metabolites. However, these reviews consider the term “cytotoxicity” to be synonymous with “anticancer agent”, which is not actually true. Indeed, a cytotoxic compound is by definition a poisonous compound. To become a potential anticancer agent, a cytotoxic compound must at least display (i) selectivity between normal and cancer cells (ii) activity against multidrug-resistant (MDR) cancer cells; and (iii) a preferentially non-apoptotic cell death mechanism, as it is now well known that a high proportion of cancer cells that resist chemotherapy are in fact apoptosis-resistant cancer cells against which pro-apoptotic drugs have more than limited efficacy. The present review thus focuses on the cytotoxic marine fungal-derived metabolites whose ability to kill cancer cells has been reported in the literature. Particular attention is paid to the compounds that kill cancer cells through non-apoptotic cell death mechanisms.     

新型萘酰亚胺衍生物合成研究

合成了一系列新型的萘酰亚胺-亮氨酸加合物,利用红外光谱、核磁共振氢／碳谱和高分辨质谱等对其结构进行了确认,并利用MTT法和SRB法对其抗肿瘤活性进行了研究。结果表明,该系列化合物对所测试的6种肿瘤细胞株（HeLa、A549、P388、HL-60、MCF-7、A375）表现出较好的增长抑制活性,IC50值为10^-6～10^-5M。     

仿刺参肠多糖提取物对小鼠实体瘤的抑制作用

采用碱解、酶解和醇沉淀法提取仿刺参Apostichopusjaponicus肠组织中的粗多糖（简称肠多糖）,通过构建小鼠I-122肝癌实体瘤模型,采用腹腔给药途径,研究了不同剂量的肠多糖[200、100、50mg／（kg·d）]对小鼠实体瘤的抑制作用,并测定了小鼠的脾脏指数、胸腺指数以及血清中肿瘤坏死因子（TNF—α）和白细胞介索2（IL-2）的含量。结果表明：肠多糖对患H22肝癌小鼠的实体瘤具有显著的抑制作用,肠多糖高剂量组小鼠的瘤质量与肿瘤对照组差异极显著（P〈0．01）,肠多糖中、低剂量组的瘤质量与肿瘤对照组差异显著（P〈0．05）,肠多糖高、中、低剂量的抑瘤率分别为90．1％、85．2％和71．7％;各肠多糖组小鼠的脾脏指数与肿瘤对照组均无显著差异（P〉0．05）,但随着肠多糖剂量的上升,小鼠的脾脏指数也上升;各肠多糖组小鼠的胸腺指数均高于肿瘤对照组,除肠多糖低剂量组外其余各组均与肿瘤对照组差异显著（P〈0．05）;肠多糖高剂量组小鼠血清中的IL-2含量极显著高于3个对照组（P〈0．01）,而肠多糖中、低剂量组血清中的IL-2含量与肿瘤对照组、给药健康对照组均无显著差异（P〉0．05）;肠多糖高、中、低剂量组小鼠血清中的TNF—α含量与3个对照组均无显著差异（P〉0．05）。     

EPS364, a Novel Deep-Sea Bacterial Exopolysaccharide,Inhibits Liver Cancer Cell Growth and Adhesion

The prognosis of liver cancer was inferior among tumors. New medicine treatments are urgently needed. In this study, a novel exopolysaccharide EPS364 was purified from Vibrio alginolyticus 364, which was isolated from a deep-sea cold seep of the South China Sea. Further research showed that EPS364 consisted of mannose, glucosamine, gluconic acid, galactosamine and arabinose with a molar ratio of 5:9:3.4:0.5:0.8. The relative molecular weight of EPS364 was 14.8 kDa. Our results further revealed that EPS364 was a β-linked and phosphorylated polysaccharide. Notably, EPS364 exhibited a significant antitumor activity, with inducing apoptosis, dissipation of the mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) and generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in Huh7.5 liver cancer cells. Proteomic and quantitative real-time PCR analyses indicated that EPS364 inhibited cancer cell growth and adhesion via targeting the FGF19-FGFR4 signaling pathway. These findings suggest that EPS364 is a promising antitumor agent for pharmacotherapy.     

银杏外种皮中银杏酚酸抗肿瘤活性的研究

从银杏外种皮中提取银杏酚酸,对银杏酚酸的抗肿瘤活性进行了研究。结果表明:银杏酚酸浓度为10,20,40 mg/kg.d时,对小鼠S180肉瘤的抑制率分别为38.93%,42.90%和62.94%,40 mg/kg.d的抑瘤率超过了阳性对照药物Cy;银杏酚酸使荷瘤小鼠的胸腺重量减轻,但无明显差异,中低剂量组能显著提高荷瘤小鼠脾脏的重量,但高剂量组却减轻脾脏重量;银杏酚酸能抑制人宫颈癌Hela细胞增殖,并呈时间和药物浓度的依赖性,当银杏酚酸浓度为24 mg/L时,对Hela细胞的增殖抑制率超过70%。     

Azide Method Applied in the Synthesis of Antineoplastic Active Meterials-N''-Phenyacetyl-N-Substituted Glutamine

The results of studies of Antineopalston A10 show it's degradation products, such as glutamines and isoglutamines, having antitumor activity. According to these, some N'-phenylacetyl-N-substituted glutamines are designed and synthesized for researching their antitumor activity. In the syntheses of these compounds, the acid azides are prepared first, which then react with amines at low temperature to transform to the target molecules. The mild reaction conditions and good yields and the optical activity maintaining are the merits of this method. Evaluation of antitumor activity of the target molecules is carried out by MTT method to L1210 cell strain. The result showes some compounds can inhibit growth of the cancer cells.     

密花核果木抗肿瘤有效部位的筛选研究

采用3-(4,5-二甲基噻唑-2)-2,5-二苯基四氮唑溴盐(MTT)法,以2种人肿瘤细胞株(SGC-7901、SPCA-1)为研究对象,对海南地区核果木属植物密花核果木的抗肿瘤有效部位进行筛选研究。采用硅胶柱色谱分离技术对石油醚、氯仿萃取部位进行进一步的分离,获得不同极性组分。抗肿瘤活性试验结果表明,石油醚、氯仿萃取部位及其不同极性组分显示不同程度的肿瘤细胞增殖抑制活性,是其抗肿瘤有效部位。