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| Author(s): |
Miguel de Menezes Vaidergorn
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2016-09-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Flavio da Silva Emery;
Giuliano Cesar Clososki;
Daniel Fabio Kawano
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| Advisor: | Flavio da Silva Emery |
| Abstract | |
The aziridine ring is known since the end of the XIX century and presents high reactivity due to its high strain energy and ring tension, which makes it a valuable ally in organic synthesis, especially with nucleophiles. These characteristics also culminate in reactivity towards biological nucleophiles, such as nucleic acids. This fact leads to cellular toxicity and can be directed to specific sites, which is the case in chemotherapy agents, resulting in DNA alkylation in cancer cells. This ring can be obtained from ?-amino alcohols, which also present known activities and are present in important molecules with biological activity. As a result, this work performed a study of a structural pattern involving those two classes mentioned above, targeting a potential antitumoral activity towards the LSD1 enzyme. In this case, it is explored the structural similarity between the aziridine ring and the ciclopropane, present in the tranylcipromine structure. Furthermore, this structural pattern was studied for other two targets: breast cancer cells and the T.cruzi parasite, in order to expand the knowledge about the reactivity of those compounds in those biological systems. The development of this library allowed a preliminary analysis between the chemical structure and the observed biological activity. In this project it was possible to identify aziridines with antitumoral activities, showing higher potency than cisplatine (IC50 below 40?M). However, the mechanism is yet to be studied, considering that those compounds didn\'t inhibit the LSD1 enzyme. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/03812-9 - Development of inhibitors and fluorescent probes for the enzyme Lysine specific demethylase (LSD1) |
| Grantee: | Miguel de Menezes Vaidergorn |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |