Year 2020

• Chloroacridine derivatives as potential anticancer agents which may act as tricarboxylic acid cycle enzyme inhibitors

  Publication

  • M. Cichorek
  • A. Ronowska
  • K. Dzierzbicka
  • M. Gensicka-Kowalewska
  • M. Deptuła
  • I. Pelikant-Malecka

  - BIOMEDICINE & PHARMACOTHERAPY - Year 2020

  The chloroacridines affect biological forms of melanoma in different ways. Amelanotic (Ab) melanoma (with inhibited melanogenesis and higher malignancy) was particularly sensitive to the action of the chloroacridines. The Ab melanoma cells died through apoptosis and through death without caspase activation. Diminished activity of TAC enzymes was noticed among Ab melanoma cells together with ATP/NAD depletion, especially in the...

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Year 2019

• Novel therapeutic compound acridine–retrotuftsin action on biological forms of melanoma and neuroblastoma

  Publication

  • M. Cichorek
  • A. Ronowska
  • M. Gensicka-Kowalewska
  • M. Deptula
  • I. Pelikant-Malecka
  • K. Dzierzbicka

  - JOURNAL OF CANCER RESEARCH AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY - Year 2019

  PURPOSE: As a continuation of our search for anticancer agents, we have synthesized a new acridine-retrotuftsin analog HClx9-[Arg(NO2)-Pro-Lys-Thr-OCH3]-1-nitroacridine (named ART) and have evaluated its activity against melanoma and neuroblastoma lines. Both tumors develop from cells (melanocytes, neurons) of neuroectodermal origin, and both are tumors with high heterogeneity and unsatisfactory susceptibility to chemotherapies....

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• Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Acridine/Acridone Analogs as Potential Anticancer Agents

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  • M. Gensicka-Kowalewska
  • M. Cichorek
  • A. Ronowska
  • M. Deptuła
  • I. Klejbor
  • K. Dzierzbicka

  - Medicinal Chemistry - Year 2019

  Acridine and acridone analogues were prepared by Ullmann condensation and then cyclization reaction. As a result of nucleophilic substitution reaction 1-nitro-9-phenoxyacridine or 1-chloro-4-nitro-9(10H)-acridone with the corresponding peptides, the planned acridine derivatives (10a-c, 12, 17-a-d, 19) have been obtained. The cytotoxic activity of the newly obtained analogs were evaluated against melanotic (Ma) and amelanotic (Ab)...

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