Trisubstituted and tetrasubstituted pyrazolines as a novel class of cell-growth inhibitors in tumor cells with wild type p53.

Derivatives with scaffolds of 1,3,5-tri-substituted pyrazoline and 1,3,4,5-tetra-substituted pyrazoline were synthesized and tested for their inhibitory effects versus the p53(+/+) HCT116 and p53(-/-) H1299 human tumor cell lines. Several compounds were active against the two cell lines displaying IC50 values in the low micromolar range with a clearly more pronounced effect on the p53(+/+) HCT116 cells. The compound class shows excellent developability due to the modular synthesis, allowing independent optimization of all three to four key substituents to improve the properties of the molecules.
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