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  2. A small diversity library of α-methyl amide analogs of sulindac for probing anticancer structure-activity relationships

A small diversity library of α-methyl amide analogs of sulindac for probing anticancer structure-activity relationships

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2018 Jul 1;28(12):2136-2142. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2018.05.023.
Bini Mathew 1 Timothy S Snowden 2 Michele C Connelly 3 R Kiplin Guy 4 Robert C Reynolds 5
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Drug Discovery Division, Southern Research Institute, 2000 Ninth Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA.
  • 2 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, 250 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA.
  • 3 Department of Chemical Biology & Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Mailstop 1000, Memphis, TN 38105-3678, USA.
  • 4 The University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, 214H BioPharm Complex, Lexington, KY 40536-0596, USA.
  • 5 Division of Hematology and Oncology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
Abstract

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have a variety of potential indications that include management of pain and inflammation as well as chemoprevention and/or treatment of Cancer. Furthermore, a specific form of ibuprofen, dexibuprofen or the S-(+) form, shows interesting neurological activities and has been proposed for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. In a continuation of our work probing the Anticancer activity of small sulindac libraries, we have prepared and screened a small diversity library of α-methyl substituted sulindac amides in the profen class. Several compounds of this series displayed promising activity compared with a lead sulindac analog.

Keywords

Anticancer; Chemical biology; Chemoprevention; Profens; Sulindac.

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