Publications by authors named "Marina M Mitrovic"

New twelve in silico designed coumarin-based ERα antagonists, namely 3DQ-1a to 3DQ-1е, were synthesized and confirmed as selective ERα antagonists, showing potencies ranging from single-digit nanomolar to picomolar. The hits were confirmed as selective estrogen receptor modulators and validated as antiproliferative agents using MCF-7 breast cancer cell lines exerting from picomolar to low nanomolar potency, at the same time showing no agonistic activity within endometrial cell lines. Their mechanism of action was inspected and revealed to be through the inhibition of the Raf-1/MAPK/ERK signal transduction pathway, preventing hormone-mediated gene expression on either genomic direct or genomic indirect level, and stopping the MCF-7 cells proliferation at G/G phase.

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The estrogen receptor α (ERα) represents a 17β-estradiol-inducible transcriptional regulator that initiates the RNA polymerase II-dependent transcriptional machinery, pointed for breast cancer (BC) development either genomic direct or genomic indirect (., tethered) pathway. To develop innovative ligands, structure-based (SB) three-dimensional (3-D) quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies have been undertaken from structural data taken from partial agonists, mixed agonists/antagonists (selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs)), and full antagonists (selective ERα downregulators (SERDs)) correlated with either wild-type or mutated ERα receptors.

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Acetylshikonin (AcSh), as a red colored pigment found in roots of the plants from family , showed excellent cytotoxic activity. Due to its hydrophobic nature, and thus poor bioavailability, the aim of this study was to prepare acetylshikonin/β-cyclodextrin (AcSh/β-CD) inclusion complex by using coprecipitation method, characterize obtained system by using UV/VIS, IR and H NMR spectroscopy, and determine cytotoxic activity. Phase solubility test indicated formation of A-type binary system (substrate/ligand ratio was 1:1 M/M), with stability constant Ks of 306.

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