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SUBMITTER: Suebsakwong P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6792155 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20190910 10
Cucurbitacin B (CuB), a highly cytotoxic constituent of the Cucurbitaceae plant, was identified to exhibit potent inhibitory activity against human cancer cells as well as normal cells. This disadvantage hampers the possibility of developing this compound into an anticancer drug candidate. In this work, several bioreductive prodrugs of CuB were designed to reduce toxicity to normal cells while maintaining the cytotoxic effect to cancer cells. Embedded with a bioreductive delivery and cleavable s ...[more]