Studies on cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors: indolo-[2,3- a ]pyrrolo[3,4- c ]carbazoles versus bis-indolylmaleimides

Autor: Concha Sanchez-Martinez, Chuan Shih, Richard M. Schultz, Guoxin Zhu, Charles D. Spencer, Tiechao Li, Catherine A. Ogg, Bharvin K. R. Patel, Eileen L. Considine, Jack A. Dempsey, Faming Zhang, Harold B. Brooks, Tammy B. DeHahn, Scott A. Watkins
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 13:3841-3846
ISSN: 0960-894X
Popis: A series of indolo[2,3-a]pyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazoles and their bis-indolylmaleimides precursors have been prepared in order to compare their activity as D1-CDK4 inhibitors. Both enzymatic and antiproliferative assays have shown that the structurally more constrained indolo[2,3-a]pyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazoles are consistently more active (8-42-fold) in head-to-head comparison with their bis-indolylmaleimides counterparts. Cell-cycle analysis using flow cytometry have also shown that the indolocarbazoles are selective G1 blockers while the bis-indolylmaleimides arrest cells in the G2/M phase.
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