Abstract
Problem statement: Pyridones are known to have variety of biological activities like antitumor, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antimalarial activities. This study presents antiviral evaluation of dihydropyridones derived from curcumin, as well as curcumin for comparison. Approach: The compounds evaluated for their in vitro antiviral activities against the viruses: HIV-1, Bovin viral Diarrhea, Yellow Fever, Reovirus 1, Herpesvirus 1, Vaccinia, Vescular Stomatitis, Coxackie virus B2, Poliovirus 1 and Respiratory Syncytial viruses by using Microculture Tetrazolium assay (MTT) method. The method was based on the metabolic reduction of 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2- yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide. Results: Antiviral biological activities represented as CC50 were within the range >100-26 for BHK-21, while they were within the range >90-≥13 against Respiratory Syncytial Virus when represented as EC50 for example. Both CC50 and EC50 values were found to increase with increasing chain length of the substituent on the nitrogen atom. Conclusion: The in vitro antiviral activities of the tested dihydropyridones can be enhanced by increasing chain length of the substituent on the nitrogen atom.
Highlights
Dihydropyridones are important intermediates for the synthesis of natural products, alkaloids (Dong et al, 2005; Comins and Ollinger, 2001; Elias et al, 2008) and they have been extensively investigated as valuable building block for the construction of piperidines, perhydroquinolens, indolizidines, quinolizidines and other alkaloid systems, with a wide range of a biological and pharmacological activities
Very little was published about the antitumor activities of dihydropyridones and the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between structure and antitumor activity of a series of dihydropyridones derived from curcumin
These compounds as well as curcumin were evaluated for preliminary estimation of the in vitro tumor inhibiting activity against a variety of viruses included: HIV-1, Bovin Viral Diarrhea (BVDV), Yellow Fever (YFV), Reovirus 1 (Reo), Herpesvirus 1 (HSV-1), Vaccinia VV), Vescular Stomatitis (VSV), Coxackie virus B2 CVB-2), Poliovirus 1 (Sb-1) and Respiratory Syncytial (RSV) viruses, using microculture assay (MTT) method (Tang et al, 2010)
Summary
Dihydropyridones are important intermediates for the synthesis of natural products, alkaloids (Dong et al, 2005; Comins and Ollinger, 2001; Elias et al, 2008) and they have been extensively investigated as valuable building block for the construction of piperidines, perhydroquinolens, indolizidines, quinolizidines and other alkaloid systems, with a wide range of a biological and pharmacological activities These compounds are known for their antiproliferative and antitubolin activities (Magedov et al, 2008) and as potential selective inhibitors of receptor tyrosine kinase (Hu et al, 2008; Goodman et al, 2007). Very little was published about the antitumor activities of dihydropyridones and the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between structure and antitumor activity of a series of dihydropyridones derived from curcumin
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