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Wei Li1, Peipei Han1, Shuanglian Cai1
1a College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha , China.
Abstract:
Two series of fifteen novel thioxoflavonoids 2a-2h and 4a-4g were synthesized from corresponding flavonoids 1a-1h and 3a-3g by reacting with Lawesson's reagent, respectively. Their in vitro antiproliferative activities were evaluated on a panel of three human cancer cell lines (Hela, HCC1954 and SK-OV-3) using cell counting kit-8 (CCK-8) assay. The results showed that most of the target compounds exhibited moderate to good antiproliferative activities against the three human cancer cell lines. In particular, thioxoflavonoids 2f and 2g showed the strongest antiproliferative activity on all three human cancer cell lines with IC50 values ranging from 3.34 to 4.67 μM, 4f showed the best antiproliferative activity on Hela cells (IC50 2.30 μM), 2e showed the best antiproliferative activity on HCC1954 cells (IC50 2.13 μM) and SK-OV-3 cells (IC50 2.33 μM). The antiproliferative activities may be involved in their antioxidant activity, which can be speculated by their ability to scavenge free radicals and by their capacity of affecting key redox enzymes.
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