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SUBMITTER: Krishnamoorthy R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2013933 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krishnamoorthy Ravi R Richardson Brooke L BL Lipton Mark A MA
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20070707 18
The desmethoxy analogue of the cytotoxic, cyclic depsipeptide callipeltin B was synthesized to evaluate the role of its beta-MeOTyr residue. The IC(50) of desmethoxycallipeltin B, in which the beta-MeOTyr residue was replaced by d-Tyr, against HeLa cells was found to be 128+/-10 microM in an MTT assay, compared to 98+/-5 microM for the natural product itself. The roughly comparable cytotoxicities suggest that the cytotoxicity of callipeltin B does not arise through the formation of a quinone met ...[more]