CN115057856B - 3, 5-disubstituted-7-azaindole derivative and synthetic method and application thereof - Google Patents

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CN115057856B
CN115057856B CN202210639390.1A CN202210639390A CN115057856B CN 115057856 B CN115057856 B CN 115057856B CN 202210639390 A CN202210639390 A CN 202210639390A CN 115057856 B CN115057856 B CN 115057856B
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The invention belongs to the technical field of medicines, and particularly relates to a 3, 5-disubstituted-7-azaindole derivative, and a synthesis method and application thereof. The 3, 5-disubstituted-7-azaindole derivative has GPX inhibitory activity and good patent medicine potential, and is expected to be used for preparing medicines for treating/preventing diseases related to GPX 4.

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3, 5-disubstituted-7-azaindole derivative and synthetic method and application thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of medicines, and particularly relates to a 3, 5-disubstituted-7-azaindole derivative, and a synthesis method and application thereof.
Background
Iron death is a novel cell death mode discovered and named for the first time in 2012, and is significantly different from the cell death modes such as apoptosis, necrosis, autophagy and pyrosis in morphology, biological characteristics and regulatory mechanisms. Iron death is the triggering of cell death by lipid peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids on cell membranes under the catalysis of ferrous iron, resulting in membrane rupture. Iron death plays an important role in the occurrence, development and treatment of tumors, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and neurodegenerative diseases.
Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX 4) can reduce lipid peroxides to non-toxic water or alcohols, protecting cells from lipid peroxidation. The prior study shows that GPX4 plays a key regulation role in the death process of cell iron, and inhibiting the activity of the GPX4 can promote the death of tumor cells. The inhibitor of GPX4 is used for inducing iron death, so that the method has great significance and good application prospect in the treatment of tumors which have drug resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs.
However, existing GPX4 inhibitors, including RSL3, mostly inhibit GPX4 activity by covalent bond formation of activated alkyl chloride with its catalytic selenocysteine residue, lack stability and selectivity for pharmaceutical requirements, and have poor pharmacokinetic properties and can only be used in vitro as tool compounds (ref: eaton, j.k., et al, nature chemical biology,2020.16 (5): p.497-506.). On the other hand, GPX4 also has important physiological activity, and a safe and effective treatment window is also a difficulty in developing GPX4 inhibitor drugs. Therefore, the development of the novel GPX4 inhibitor with better drug property has important significance for tumor treatment.
Disclosure of Invention
The present invention aims to solve at least one of the technical problems in the prior art described above. Therefore, the invention provides a 3, 5-disubstituted-7-azaindole derivative, and a synthesis method and application thereof. The 3, 5-disubstituted-7-azaindole derivative has GPX inhibitory activity and good potential of patent medicine, and is expected to be used for developing and obtaining novel antitumor drugs.
The invention provides a 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the structural formula of the 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative is as follows:
wherein, when R is tert-butoxycarbonyl, the number of the 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative is DA-5;
when R is a hydrogen atom, the 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative is numbered DA-6.
Specifically, the structural formulas of DA-5 and DA-6 are shown below:
the invention also provides a synthetic method of the 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a reaction route for preparing the 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative is as follows:
performing Friedel-crafts acylation on 5-bromo-7-azaindole and oxalyl chloride to obtain an intermediate (1); condensing the intermediate (1) with 2- (2-pyridyl) ethylamine to obtain an intermediate (2); the intermediate (2) is subjected to Suzuki coupling reaction to obtain DA-5; carrying out Boc removal reaction on the DA-5 to obtain DA-6;
the invention also provides application of the 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in preparing any one of the following products:
a. a medicament for treating/preventing a disease associated with GPX 4;
b. a product that inhibits GPX enzyme activity;
c. a product that induces cellular iron death;
d. a product that modulates the degree of lipid peroxidation of a cell.
Preferably, the disease associated with GPX4 comprises a tumor.
More preferably, the tumor comprises breast cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, glioblastoma.
Even more preferably, the tumor is breast cancer.
The invention also provides an antitumor drug comprising a 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
Preferably, the antitumor drug further comprises pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary materials.
More preferably, the pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary material is at least one of a solvent, a wetting agent, an emulsifier, a thickener, an excipient, a suspending agent, a disintegrant, a filler, a lubricant or a diluent.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
the 3, 5-disubstituted-7-azaindole derivatives (DA-5 and DA-6) provided by the invention have completely different chemical structures from the existing GPX4 inhibitors, but also show good GPX4 activity inhibition effects. The 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative has killing effect on various tumor cells in vitro, shows anti-tumor activity on an animal model, does not have obvious adverse effect on the health condition of animals, and shows that the 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative has good drug properties different from the existing GPX4 inhibitor.
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FIG. 1 shows the results of an experiment for inhibiting GPX4 enzyme activity at the cellular level;
FIG. 2 shows the results of the in vitro GPX4 enzyme inhibition activity of DA-5 and DA-6;
FIG. 3 shows the inhibitory effect of DA-5 on GPX4 at different doses;
FIG. 4 shows the growth inhibitory effect of DA-5 on a variety of breast cancer cells;
FIG. 5 is a graph showing the alleviating effects of lipid peroxidation scavengers Fer-1 and Lip-1 on DA-5;
FIG. 6 is a rescue effect of Fer-1 on DA-5 induced cellular iron death;
FIG. 7 is a flow cytometric assay to detect the effect of DA-5 on apoptosis;
FIG. 8 shows the pharmacokinetic results of mice after oral administration of DA-5;
FIG. 9 shows the growth inhibition results of DA-5 on MDA-MB-231 xenograft tumors.
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In order to make the technical solutions of the present invention more apparent to those skilled in the art, the following examples will be presented. It should be noted that the following embodiments are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments, and any modifications, substitutions, and combinations made without departing from the spirit and principles of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention.
The starting materials, reagents or apparatus used in the following examples are all available from conventional commercial sources or may be obtained by methods known in the art unless otherwise specified.
Example 1: chemical synthetic route for 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivatives (DA-5) and (DA-6)
Performing Friedel-crafts acylation on 5-bromo-7-azaindole and oxalyl chloride to obtain an intermediate (1); condensing the intermediate (1) with 2- (2-pyridyl) ethylamine to obtain an intermediate (2); the intermediate (2) is subjected to Suzuki coupling reaction to obtain DA-5; carrying out Boc removal reaction on the DA-5 to obtain DA-6; the specific reaction route is as follows:
wherein the reaction conditions and parameters are as follows: a. diethyl ether, 0 ℃,3h; b.K 2 CO 3 Toluene, reflux for 3h; pd (dppf) Cl 2 (dichloro [1,1' -bis (diphenylphosphine) ferrocene)]Palladium), K 2 CO 3 ,H 2 O/DME,90℃;d&e.CH 2 Cl 2 ,rt.
Example 2: structure of 3, 5-disubstituted-7-azaindole derivatives (DA-5) and (DA-6)
The chemical structural formulas, mass spectra and nuclear magnetic data of DA-5 and DA-6 are shown in Table 1:
TABLE 1
Example 3: cell level GPX4 enzyme Activity inhibition assay
Collect 5X 10 5 Fine MDA-MB-231 of breast cancerCells, 1mL of sample Buffer (Beyotime, S0056) was added and homogenized in an ice bath using a glass homogenizer. After 10. Mu.L of each homogenate was treated with 1. Mu.L of DMSO (VEH group), 1. Mu.L of DA-5 (DA-5 group, 5 mM) and 1. Mu.L of RSL3 (RSL group, a known GPX4 inhibitor, CAS No.:1219810-16-8, 10 mM) for 1 hour, GPX4 activity was detected by using a glutathione peroxidase assay kit (NADPH method) (Beyotime, S0056), and the detection results are shown in FIG. 1.
As shown in FIG. 1, the 3, 5-disubstituted-7-azaindole derivative DA-5 has good GPX4 activity inhibition effect.
Example 4: DA-5 and DA-6 in vitro GPX4 enzyme inhibition Activity Studies
The present example tested the ability of DA-5 and DA-6 to inhibit the activity of purified GPX4 enzyme using the GPX enzyme activity test kit, as follows: the purified GPX4 proteins are divided into four groups of 10 mu M, RSL3, DA-5 and DA-6 are respectively added into the four groups, the DMSO content of each group is controlled to be consistent and less than 1%, and according to the instruction of the kit, the GPX4 enzyme activity of each group is tested, and the test result is shown in figure 2. As can be seen from FIG. 2, both DA-5 and DA-6 have better enzyme inhibition effect on GPX4 than the known GPX4 inhibitor-RSL 3.
In addition, the inhibitory effect of DA-5 on GPX4 (GPX 4 protein 10. Mu.M) at various doses (30, 20, 13.3,8.89,5.93,3.95,2.63. Mu.M) was tested, and the IC50 value of DA-5 for inhibition of GPX4 enzyme activity was calculated, and the test results are shown in FIG. 3. FIG. 3 shows that DA-5 inhibits the enzyme activity of GPX4 50 =10.90 μm, demonstrating a significant inhibitory effect of DA-5 on GPX 4.
Example 5: DA-5 in vitro anti-tumor Activity Studies
DA-5 was tested for inhibitory activity against proliferation of various breast cancer cells (Sk-Br-3, BT549, MDA-MB-468, MDA-MB-231, 4T 1) after 48 hours of action using a sulforhodamine B (SRB) colorimetric method, and the test results are shown in FIG. 4. As can be seen from fig. 4, DA-5 can significantly inhibit the growth of tumor cells, and its inhibition effect is enhanced with increasing dosage, and is characterized by dose dependency.
Example 6: DA-5 induces cellular iron death
Breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 h, stained with DA-5 (5. Mu.M), and analyzed by flow cytometry. As can be seen from FIG. 5, DA-5 significantly increases the degree of lipid peroxidation, and the lipid peroxidation scavengers Fer-1 (5. Mu.M) and Lip-1 (5. Mu.M) can alleviate the effects. As can be seen from FIG. 6, SRB experiments show that this death can be rescued by the iron death inhibitor, fer-1 (5. Mu.M). As can be seen from FIG. 7, the double-staining with PI+annexin V showed no significant increase in early apoptotic cells (PI-, annexin V+) by flow cytometry, eliminating the possibility of DA-5 induced apoptosis, and the lipid peroxidation scavenging reagent Lip-1 (5. Mu.M) significantly reduced the DA-5 induced cell death rate. The above results indicate that DA-5 induces iron death in cells.
Example 7: pharmacokinetic study of DA-5 mice
33 KM female mice were dosed with DA-5 at a dose of 30mg/kg (reference pharmacodynamic dose), fasted but free-standing for 12 hours, and then dosed by stomach irrigation, eyeballs were extracted at 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 24 hours, and blood was collected in heparin-treated tubes, 3 mice at each time point. Plasma was collected by centrifugation, treated with four volumes of organic solvent (methanol: acetonitrile=1:1), centrifuged, and the supernatant was collected, quantitatively diluted with the organic solvent, and then detected by the LC-MS/MS assay method for DA-5 assay in mouse plasma established in advance, and analysis was performed by measuring DA-5 concentration-time data in plasma after single-dose gavage of 30mg/kg of DA-5, and the results are shown in fig. 8 and table 2. The detection result shows that the DA-5 mice have ideal bioavailability after oral administration and ideal potential of patent medicine.
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Example 8: DA-5 inhibits the growth of MDA-MB-231 xenograft tumors
DA-5 was intragastrically administered at 30mg/kg/d for 3 weeks on a MDA-MB-231 xenograft tumor mouse model, and the growth status and tumor progression of the mice were monitored and the test results are shown in FIG. 9. As can be seen from fig. 9 (a), the overall health of the animals was good, and no significant decrease in body weight was observed; as can be seen from fig. 9 (B), DA-5 significantly reduced the growth rate of tumor (B); as can be seen from fig. 9 (C) and (D), at the end of the experiment, the tumor size and weight were significantly reduced, and the appearance of each organ tissue was not seen to be significantly pathological, thus preliminarily indicating the safety and effectiveness of DA-5.
The embodiments of the present application have been described in detail above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above embodiments, and various changes can be made within the knowledge of one of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit of the present application. Furthermore, embodiments of the present application and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

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1. A 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative is selected from the group consisting of compounds of the structures:
2. the method for synthesizing a 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof according to claim 1, wherein the reaction scheme for preparing the 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative is as follows:
performing Friedel-crafts acylation on 5-bromo-7-azaindole and oxalyl chloride to obtain an intermediate (1); condensing the intermediate (1) with 2- (2-pyridyl) ethylamine to obtain an intermediate (2); the intermediate (2) is subjected to Suzuki coupling reaction to obtain DA-5; carrying out Boc removal reaction on the DA-5 to obtain DA-6;
3. use of a 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative according to claim 1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the preparation of any one of the following products:
a. a medicament for treating/preventing a disease associated with GPX 4;
b. a product that inhibits GPX enzyme activity;
c. a product that induces cellular iron death;
d. a product that modulates the degree of lipid peroxidation of a cell.
4. The use according to claim 3, wherein the disease associated with GPX4 comprises a tumour.
5. The use according to claim 4, wherein the tumor comprises breast cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, glioblastoma.
6. An antitumor agent comprising the 3, 5-disubstituted-7 azaindole derivative of claim 1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
7. The antitumor drug of claim 6, further comprising pharmaceutically acceptable excipients.
8. The antitumor drug of claim 7, wherein the pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvant is at least one of a solvent, a wetting agent, an emulsifier, a thickener, an excipient, a suspending agent, a disintegrant, a filler, a lubricant, or a diluent.
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