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SUBMITTER: Weiß C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3511040 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beilstein journal of organic chemistry 20121123
Cryptophycins are cytotoxic natural products that exhibit considerable activities even against multi-drug-resistant tumor cell lines. As fluorinated pharmaceuticals have become more and more important during the past decades, fluorine-functionalized cryptophycins were synthesized and evaluated in cell-based cytotoxicity assays. The unit A trifluoromethyl-modified cryptophycin proved to be highly active against KB-3-1 cells and exhibited an IC(50) value in the low picomolar range. However, the re ...[more]