Core Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of 5,7,20- O -Trimethylsilybins in Prostate Cancer Cell Models

Silibinin, also known as silybin, is isolated from milk thistle ( ). Silibinin has been demonstrated to be a good lead compound due to its potential to prevent and treat prostate cancer. Its moderate potency and poor pharmacokinetic profile hindered it from moving forward to therapeutic use. Our res...

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Published in:Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2023-04, Vol.16 (4), p.531
Main Authors: Wu, Sitong, Chen, Guanglin, Chen, Eva Y, Farshidpour, Leyla S, Zhang, Qiang, Wang, Guangdi, Chen, Qiao-Hong
Format: Article
Language:English
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5,7,20-O-trimethylsilybin
androgen receptor
Androgens
Apoptosis
Cell growth
flavonolignan
Iodine
Prostate cancer
silybin
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Summary:Silibinin, also known as silybin, is isolated from milk thistle ( ). Silibinin has been demonstrated to be a good lead compound due to its potential to prevent and treat prostate cancer. Its moderate potency and poor pharmacokinetic profile hindered it from moving forward to therapeutic use. Our research group has been working on optimizing silibinin for the potential treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer. Our previous studies established 5,7,20- -trimethylsilybins as promising lead compounds as they can selectively suppress androgen receptor (AR)-positive LNCaP cell proliferation. Encouraged by the promising data, the present study aims to investigate the relationships between the core structure of 5,7,20- -trimethylsilybin and their antiproliferative activities towards AR-positive (LNCaP) and AR-negative prostate cancer cell lines (PC-3 and DU145). The structure-activity relationships among the four different core structures (including flavanonol-type flavonolignan (silibinin), flavone-type flavonolignan (hydnocarpin D), chalcone-type flavonolignan, and taxifolin (a flavonolignan precursor) indicate that 5,7,20- -trimethylsilybins are the most promising scaffold to selectively suppress AR-positive LNCaP prostate cancer cell proliferation. Further investigation on the antiproliferative potency of their optically enriched versions of the most promising 5,7,20- -trimethylsilybins led to the conclusion that (10 ,11 ) derivatives (silybin A series) are more potent than (10 ,11 ) derivatives (silybin B series) in suppressing AR positive LNCaP cell proliferation.
ISSN:1424-8247
1424-8247
DOI:10.3390/ph16040531