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Nonprenylated rotenoids, a new class of potent breast cancer resistance protein inhibitors - PubMed

  • ️Mon Jan 01 2007

. 2007 Apr 19;50(8):1933-8.

doi: 10.1021/jm061450q. Epub 2007 Mar 7.

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Nonprenylated rotenoids, a new class of potent breast cancer resistance protein inhibitors

Abdelhakim Ahmed-Belkacem et al. J Med Chem. 2007.

Abstract

Two rotenoids isolated from Boerhaavia diffusa (Nyctaginaceae), boeravinones G (1) and H (2), have been found to potently inhibit the drug efflux activity of breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP/ABCG2), a multidrug transporter responsible for cancer cell resistance to chemotherapy. The isolation of nine additional rotenoid derivatives (3-11), including the new boeravinones I (10) and J (11), from the extract of B. diffusa roots allowed us to establish structure-activity relationships toward inhibition of BCRP-mediated drug transport activity. The results show the positive roles of a methoxy group at position 6 of ring B and the absence of a substituent at position 10, and the requirement for a 6a/12a double bond between rings B and C. In contrast, both contraction of ring B, to give a coumaronochromone (11), and tetrasubstitution of ring D appeared to be detrimental for the inhibitory potency. The present study provides the first data on the BCRP-inhibiting activity of rotenoid derivatives, indicating boeravinones as a new class of interesting BCRP inhibitors.

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