The cytotoxic effect of some synthetic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds on cultures of tumour and normal cells and the calculation of their ADME, QSAR, and DFT pharmacological properties

Authors

  • Vasyl Vdovin Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • Sergiy Yarmoluk Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/2519-8025.2022.256113

Keywords:

imidazoles, aurones, triazoles, MTT, ADME, QSAR, DFT

Abstract

The cytotoxic effect of several synthetic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds on cultures of tumour and normal cells and the calculation of their ADME, QSAR, and DFT pharmacological properties

The aim. The purpose of our work was to investigate the cytotoxic influence of some synthetic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds, namely imidazole, aurones, and triazole on the culture of tumour cells of melanoma mouse B16, human glioma U251 and normal HEK293 and their ADME, QSAR, and DFT pharmacological properties calculation.

Materials and methods. The estimation of cell viability in the conditions of influence of the investigated drugs was carried out by MTT. ADME data screening was performed by the SWISSADME server. QSAR calculations were performed on Way2Drug servers (cancerogenicity was predicted with ROSC-Pred, metabolism – with RA, side effects of drugs were investigated using AdverPred server, LD50 were predicted with Gusar software). The calculation of the functional density (DFT) was carried out using B3LYP and the functional of the exchange-correlation with the base set of 6-31 G (D, P) in the MMFF94 force field in the Avogadro program.

The results. It was found that compounds 1 and 2 are toxic for normal cells HEK293, compounds 3, 4, 6 and 7 are low-toxic, and 5 does not inhibit cell growth at all. Our study has demonstrated that in the case of tumour cell line U251 compounds 2, 3 and 7 are non-toxic in general, and substances 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7 have significant toxicity. In a case of cancer cell line B16, compounds 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 are toxic, and compound 7 is cytotoxic at any concentration. The test compounds (1–7) possess drug-like properties. All compounds meet Lipinski’s “rule of five” criteria. The BOILED-Egg model demonstrates that compound 3 may penetrate blood-brain barrier, all compounds except 1 can be absorbed in the intestine, 2 and 5 can be cleaved in the gastrointestinal tract and 3, 4, 6, and 7 have resistance to digestive enzymes. The analysis of metabolism showed that these compounds can mainly be metabolized by mechanisms of N- and O-glucuronidation and C-oxidation. The obtained data indicate that the smallest toxic effect is achieved with intravenously introduced compounds, and the largest toxicity is achieved with oral administration for compounds 3, 4, 5 and 6. The compounds 1 and 3 are completely noncarcinogenic, the other compounds can affect thyroid glands and hematopoietic system. This result requires further research when introduced into practical application. DFT calculations have shown that all investigated compounds are stable and reactive.

Conclusions. Differences in the sensitivity of cell lines and dose-dependent effects of compounds detected during the study should be considered when calculating the optimal working concentrations of drugs. The results of the study are necessary to understand toxic effects on the cell lines B16, HEK293, and U251 and their further use for preclinical studies

Author Biographies

Vasyl Vdovin, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Postgraduate Student

Sergiy Yarmoluk, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor, Head of Department

Department of Biomedical Chemistry

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2022-05-07

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Vdovin, V., & Yarmoluk, S. (2022). The cytotoxic effect of some synthetic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds on cultures of tumour and normal cells and the calculation of their ADME, QSAR, and DFT pharmacological properties. ScienceRise: Biological Science, (1(30), 26–37. https://doi.org/10.15587/2519-8025.2022.256113

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