Avalia??o da atividade t?xica e investiga??o sobre os prov?veis mecanismos de a??o de diarileptanoides naturais, seus derivados e an?logos frente ao Trypanosoma cruzi

• Autor(a) principal: Santiago, Vitor Sueth
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRRJ
• Texto Completo: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/1290
• topic: Chagas disease; Medicinal Chemistry; Curcumin.; Doen?a de Chagas; Qu?mica Medicinal; Curcumina; Qu?mica

This work aimed to characterize the trypanocidal activity of curcumin, as well as synthesise a set of structurally-related compounds to investigate the relationships between chemical structure and biological activity (SAR). The isolation of natural curcumin was carried along with two other natural curcuminoides, which together with a third (cyclocurcumin) formed the very first set of derivatives subjected to a screening against epimastigotes forms of T. cruzi (Dm28c strain). This screening pointed out the 1,3-diketone moiety as well as the methoxyl- group in the position 3 of the aromatic ring as potencial pharmacophores. Then, a set of synthetic analogues were prepared based on rational changes on the three structural subunits present in curcumin. These synthetic derivatives were subjected to the same screening, and three of them showed superior trypanocidal activity compared to the natural product. Then, taking the informations obtained from this first screening, the synthesis of constrained analogues were performed which showed an interesting result based on the ring-size of the derivatives. In parallel, a series of 1,3-pyrimidine derivatives were prepared, based on potential bioisosteric relationships between the 1,3-diketone moiety and the 1,3-pyrimidine heterocycle. All the derivatives obtained were tested against T. cruzi, and those shown trypanocidal activity were submited to a cell viability assay, where three of the synthetic derivatives demonstrated selective toxicity against the parasite: (E) ? 2 - (4 ? hydroxy - 3-methoxybenzylidene) ? 6 - ((E) ? 3 - (4 ? hydroxy ? 3 - methoxyphenyl) acryloyl) cyclohexanone; (2E,6E) - 2,6 ? bis (4 ? hydroxy ? 3 -methoxybenzylidene) cyclohexanone and 4,4 '- ((1E,1'E) - (2 ? chloropyrimidine - 4,6 - diyl) bis (ethene - 2,1 - diyl)) bis (2 -methoxyphenol). These derivatives were tested in an assay of infected macrophages, and they prove to be toxic for both parasite forms (trypomastigote and amastigote). The investigation of the probable mechanism of action started with a scanning/transmission electronic microscopy of the curcumin-treated parasites in a sublethal dose. The analysis of ultraestructural changes in parasite treated cells suggested the enzyme CYP51 as well as tubulin as possible targets for curcumin. The HPLC analysis of the membrane lipids of treated parasites showed no difference when compared to non treated control. The flow cytometry analysis showed a characteristic profile similar to those compounds who binds to tubulin and disrupts microtubules. To improve this hypothesis, the T. cruzi tubulin was modelled by homology and the curcuminoids were docked at the literature known curcumin site. The results obtained showed a good correlation between the best-scored poses obtained from the docking study and the experimental IC50 values obtained from the assays of the natural derivatives against parasite cells.