作者:R. John Harrison、Sharon M. Gowan、Lloyd R. Kelland、Stephen Neidle
DOI:10.1016/s0960-894x(99)00394-7
日期:1999.9
A series of 3,6-disubstituted acridine derivatives have been rationally designed as telomerase inhibitors. They have been designed on the basis that inhibition of telomerase occurs by stabilising G-quadruplex structures formed by the folding of telomeric DNA. The most potent inhibitors have IC50 values against telomerase of between 1.3 and 8 mu M, comparable to their cytotoxicity in ovarian cancer cell lines. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.