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SUBMITTER: Cantrell W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6100554 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cantrell William W Huang Yue Y Menchaca Antonio A AA Kulik George G Welker Mark E ME
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20180720 7
Wortmannin is a potent covalent inhibitor of PI3K that shows substantial in vivo toxicity and thus is unsuitable for systemic therapeutic applications. One possible approach to minimize systemic toxicity is to generate a latent wortmannin pro-drug that will be selectively activated in target tissues. To test this approach, a wortmannin derivative with a leucine linker attached to C20 has been synthesized and tested for inhibition of PI3K activity in prostate cancer cells. Analysis of PI3K pathwa ...[more]