The development of efficient strategies for overcoming cancer remains a standing objective in medicinal chemistry. Design and synthesis of new potent compounds contribute efficiently to chemotherapy strategy since molecular hybridization was found an efficient strategy for designing new candidates of possible potent anticancer activities. Isoindole and 1,3,4-thiadiazole as well as glycosyl structures are known in literature with their broad-spectrum activities, the most important of which is anticancer activity. In this study, novel hybrid compounds incorporating more than motif were synthesized. A multistep synthetic pathway starting from the simple 2-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazole-2-thiol and the commercially available phthalic anhydride was applied for the preparation of the hybrid heterocyclic system. Glycosylation by acetylated glycosyl bromide and reaction with a series of monosaccharides afforded the corresponding glycosylthio-1,3,4-thiadiazole based isoindole products and the hydrazinyl-sugar derivatives, respectively. 1,3,4-Thiadiazolyl-isoindolyl-sugar compounds and related arylidenes were prepared. The cytotoxicity activity was investigated against human cancerous MCF-7, PC-3, A-549 and normal BJ-1 cells. The iodobutylthio-1,3,4-thiadiazolyl derivative exhibited the most potent activity against A-549 cell. The hybrid thiadiazolyl-sugar-based isoindole structure with the hydrazinyl-per-O-acetylated-D-galactose moiety exhibited the most potent activity against MCF-7 cell. Docking into epidermal growth factor (EGFR) revealed that the later bioactive compounds presented promising energy scores showing good affinity and various binding interactions into EGFR active site. In addition, Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation was performed to investigate the stability of the EGFR enzyme’s binding domain applying a 100 ns simulation analysis on the docked complex of EGFR with the potent compound 10 which showed that the sugar hydrazone 10 remained in the EGFR binding cavity over the 100 ns simulation with different orientations.
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