Abstract The lipophilic, cell-penetrating zinc chelator N, N, N′, N′,-tetrakis (2- pyridylmethyl) ethylenediamine (TPEN, 1) and the zinc chelating procaspase-activating compound PAC-1 (2) both have been reported to induce apoptosis in various cell types. The relationship between apoptosis-inducing ability and zinc affinity (K d), have been investigated with two new model compounds, ZnA-DPA (3) and ZnA-Pyr (4), and ...
[Cox, D. D.; Benkovic, S. J.; Bloom, L. M.; Bradley, F. C.; Nelson, M. J.; et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1988 , vol. 110, # 7 p. 2026 - 2032]