| Literature DB >> 30457873 |
Zhiwei Wen1, Jufang Peng1, Paloma R Tuttle1, Yaou Ren1, Carol Garcia1, Dipra Debnath2, Sunny Rishi2, Cameron Hanson2, Samuel Ward2, Anil Kumar2, Yanfeng Liu3, Weixi Zhao3, Peter M Glazer3, Yuan Liu1, Michael D Sevilla2, Amitava Adhikary2, Stanislaw F Wnuk1.
Abstract
Two classes of azido-modified pyrimidine nucleosides were synthesized as potential radiosensitizers; one class is 5-azidomethyl-2'-deoxyuridine (AmdU) and cytidine (AmdC), while the second class is 5-(1-azidovinyl)-2'-deoxyuridine (AvdU) and cytidine (AvdC). The addition of radiation-produced electrons to C5-azido nucleosides leads to the formation of π-aminyl radicals followed by facile conversion to σ-iminyl radicals either via a bimolecular reaction involving intermediate α-azidoalkyl radicals in AmdU/AmdC or by tautomerization in AvdU/AvdC. AmdU demonstrates effective radiosensitization in EMT6 tumor cells.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30457873 PMCID: PMC6465127 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b03035
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Org Lett ISSN: 1523-7052 Impact factor: 6.005