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New 1-phthalazinone Scaffold based Compounds: Design, Synthesis, Cytotoxicity and Protein Kinase Inhibition Activity
Nehad E Abo-Elmagd1, Riham F George1, Manal A Ezzat1
1Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt.
Background & Method:
A series of thirty-one new 1-phthalazinones was designed and synthesized based on the well-known VEGFR inhibitor vatalanib. The obtained phthalazinones were screened for their cytotoxic activity against DLD-1 and LoVo (colon), and Panc-1 and Paca-2 (pancreas) cancer cell lines using MTT assay. The tested compounds revealed exceptionally promising cytotoxic activity against LoVo cell lines with IC50 ranges 0.18-780 nM.
Conclusion:
Finally, these compounds were also found to be dual inhibitors of VEGFR-2 and EGFR in the in vitro enzyme assay with higher potency against the former (IC50 = 0.023-0.41 nM).
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