Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters

Novel quinazoline–quinoline alkaloids with cytotoxic and DNA topoisomerase II inhibitory activities

Z Ma, Y Hano, T Nomura, Y Chen

Index: Ma, Zhongze; Hano, Yoshio; Nomura, Taro; Chen, Yingjie Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2004 , vol. 14, # 5 p. 1193 - 1196

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Abstract

Two new synthetic analogues of luotonins A and F, 7-acetylaminoluotonin A (6) and 3-[3H (quinazolino-4-one)] quinoline (7) were synthesized. The new analogues, along with four natural quinazoline–quinoline alkaloids, luotonins A (1), B (2), E (3), F (4) and a synthetic deoxoluotonin F (5), showed cytotoxic activity (IC50 1.8–40.0 μg/mL) and DNA topoisomerase II inhibition at a concentration of 25 μM.