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Discovery of oxazine-linked pyrimidine as an inhibitor of breast cancer growth and metastasis by abrogating NF-κB activation

  • Front Oncol. 2024 Jul 29:14:1390992. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1390992.
Jie Yuan 1 Bhanuprakash C Narasimhachar 2 3 Akshay Ravish 3 Li Yang 4 Hua Zhang 1 Qun Wang 1 Zhi Li 1 Jun Huang 1 Bei Wang 1 Geng Wang 1 Keshav Kumar Harish 5 Arunachalam Chinnathambi 6 Chandramohan Govindasamy 7 Mahendra Madegowda 5 Basappa Basappa 3
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Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Breast, Thyroid and Vascular Surgery, Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Umbilical Cord Blood Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, China.
  • 2 Department of Chemistry, Yuvaraja's College, University of Mysore, Mysuru, Karnataka, India.
  • 3 Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Department of Studies in Organic Chemistry, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India.
  • 4 Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, China.
  • 5 Department of Studies in Physics, University of Mysore, Mysore, India.
  • 6 Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  • 7 Department of Community Health Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract

Introduction: Nuclear factor kappa (NF-κB) plays a key role in Cancer cell proliferation; thus, small molecule inhibitors of NF-κB activity can effectively inhibit breast Cancer (BC) progression. We have previously reported oxazine and piperazine-linked pyrimidines as novel anti-cancer agents that can suppress NF-κB activation in BC cells. Moreover, the TRX-01 compound, an oxazine-linked pyrimidine, inhibited MCF-7 cells at a concentration of 9.17 µM in the Alamar Blue assay.

Methods: This work involved the analysis of frontier molecular orbitals, HOMO-LUMO interactions, and molecular electrostatic potential for the TRX-01 structure. Additionally, the TRX-01 compound was studied for cytotoxicity, and migration as well as invasion assays were performed on BC cells.

Results: Finally, TRX-01 blocked the translocation of NF-κB from the cytoplasm to the nucleus in MCF-7 cells and reduced NF-κB and IκBα levels in a dose-dependent manner. It also suppressed migratory and invasive properties of BC cells.

Conclusion: Overall, the data indicates that TRX-01 can function as a novel blocker of BC growth and metastasis by targeting NF-κB activation.

Keywords

NF-κB activation; TRX-01; breast cancer; cell viability and motility; heterocyclic compounds; molecular orbital analysis; nuclear factor-κB; oxazine linked pyrimidine.

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