NUCLEOSIDES AND NUCLEOTIDES .150. ENZYMATIC-SYNTHESIS OF 5'-PHOSPHATIDYL DERIVATIVES OF -(2-C-CYANO-2-DEOXY-BETA-D-ARABINO-PENTOFURANOSYL) (CNDAC) AND THEIR NOTABLE ANTITUMOR EFFECTS IN MICE
S. Shuto et al., NUCLEOSIDES AND NUCLEOTIDES .150. ENZYMATIC-SYNTHESIS OF 5'-PHOSPHATIDYL DERIVATIVES OF -(2-C-CYANO-2-DEOXY-BETA-D-ARABINO-PENTOFURANOSYL) (CNDAC) AND THEIR NOTABLE ANTITUMOR EFFECTS IN MICE, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 6(9), 1996, pp. 1021-1024
ano-2-deoxy-beta-D-arabino-pentofuranosyl)cytosine (CNDAC, 1) is a pot
ent antitumor nucleoside developed by us. A series of 5'-phosphatidyl
derivatives of CNDAC bearing various fatty acyl residues, namely dimyr
istoyl derivative 3a, dipalmitoyl derivative 3b, distearoyl 3c, dioleo
yl derivative 3d, and dilinoleoyl derivative 3e, was synthesized by ph
ospholipase D-catalyzed transphosphatidylation. All of these 5'-phosph
atidyl-CNDACs (3a-e) administered ip almost perfectly inhibited the gr
owth of sc-implanted M5076 sarcoma in mice, and the effects were clear
ly superior to that of CNDAC. (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.