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SUBMITTER: Smithrud DB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3607455 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smithrud David B DB Wang Xiaoyang X Tarapore Pheruza P Ho Shuk-Mei SM
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20121108 1
Highly toxic bacterial ionophores are commonly used in veterinary medicine, but their therapeutic index is too narrow for human usage. With the goal of developing ionophores with a broader therapeutic index, we constructed highly derivatized synthetic ionophores. The toxicities of crown ether host-rotaxanes (CEHR's) against the SKOV-3 cell line were measured. The effect of Mg<sup>2+</sup> or Ca<sup>2+</sup> on toxicity was explored because changes in the intracellular concentration of these cati ...[more]