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ArticleRSC medicinal chemistry2023

Ferrocene modified analogues of imatinib and nilotinib as potent anti-cancer agents.

Irena Philipova, Rositsa Mihaylova, Georgi Momekov, Rostislava Angelova, Georgi Stavrakov

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Article in RSC medicinal chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Irena PhilipovaInstitute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Acad. G. Bontchev str. Bl. 9 1113 Sofia Bulgaria.
Rositsa MihaylovaFaculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia Dunav str. 2 Sofia 1000 Bulgaria stavrakov@pharmfac.mu-sofia.bg.
Georgi MomekovFaculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia Dunav str. 2 Sofia 1000 Bulgaria stavrakov@pharmfac.mu-sofia.bg.
Rostislava AngelovaFaculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia Dunav str. 2 Sofia 1000 Bulgaria stavrakov@pharmfac.mu-sofia.bg.
Georgi StavrakovInstitute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Acad. G. Bontchev str. Bl. 9 1113 Sofia Bulgaria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8893-0346
Medical University of Sofia · BGBulgarian Academy of Sciences · BG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The unique features of ferrocene and the need for development of targeted anticancer drugs inspired the design, synthesis and biological evaluation of ferrocenyl modified tyrosine kinase inhibitors by replacing the pyridyl moiety in imatinib and nilotinib generalized structures with a ferrocenyl group. A series of seven new ferrocene analogues were synthesized and evaluated for their anticancer activity in a panel of bcr-abl positive human malignant cell lines using imatinib as a reference drug. The metallocenes exhibited a dose-dependent inhibition on malignant cell growth with varying antileukemic activity. The most potent analogues were compounds 9 and 15a showing comparable or even superior efficacy to the reference. Their cancer selectivity indices suggest a favorable selectivity profile, indicating a 250 times higher preferential activity of 15a towards malignantly transformed K-562 cells and an even twice greater one (500) of 9 in the LAMA-84 leukemic model as compared to the normal murine fibroblast cell line.

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PMID37252096
PMCPMC10211329
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