Abstract:
Ten novel oleanolic acid (OA) derivatives containing urea or thiourea group were designed and synthesized, the chemical structures were confirmed by
1H NMR,
13C NMR and HR-MS. All of these compounds were evaluated for the inhibitory activity against growth of HepG2 and SGC7901 cells. The results showed that compounds
I3 and
Ⅱ3 exhibited significant antitumor activities with IC
50 of 9.4 and 5.5 μmol·L
-1, respectively. Molecular docking studies showed that all these compounds exhibit inhibitory ability against mTOR kinase. Compounds
I3 and
Ⅱ3 were further evaluated for the inhibitory activity against mTOR kinase. The results showed that
I3 and
Ⅱ3 exhibited strong inhibitory effect on mTOR kinase with IC
50 values of 0.83 and 0.26 μmol·L
-1.