Cytotoxicity and DNA Interaction of the Enantiomers of 6-Amino-3-(chloromethyl)-1-[(5,6,7-trimethoxyindol-2-yl)carbonyl]indoline (Amino-seco-CI-TMI)
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The enantiomers of the previously reported racemic 6-amino-3-(chloromethyl)-1-[(5,6,7-trimethoxyindol-2-yl)carbonyl]indoline (amino-seco-CI-TMI) were prepared via resolution of aprecursor by chiral HPLC. The only detectable product isolated from reaction of the racemiccompound with calf thymus DNA, followed by thermal cleavage, was shown by massspectrometry and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy to be the adenine N3 adduct. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis assays with the racemate and with each enantiomer also showedadenine to be the only site of alkylation. While the racemic amino compound exhibited sequenceselectivity identical to that of the previously characterized phenol analogue, the enantiomersexhibited distinctly different sequence selectivities, allowing the (+) enantiomer to be assignedthe "natural" S configuration. The (+)-(S) enantiomer is 3-fold more cytotoxic than the (-)-(R)enantiomer (IC50 values of 240 and 700 nM, respectively, in AA8 cells, after exposure for 4 h).