Research Article

Synthesis and Experimental Validation of New Designed Heterocyclic Compounds with Antiproliferative Activity versus Breast Cancer Cell Lines MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231

Table 1

Molecular structures, in vitro activity on MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cell lines, and in silico activity values for the ten selected compounds and 5-FU. Activity values expressed as .

Molecule nameMolecular structureMCF7
experimental
activity
log GI50/µM ± SD
MDA-MB-231
experimental
activity
log GI50/µM ± SD
Predicted
activity versus MCF7

Pyrimidinketone 2A−5.20 ± 0.7−4.8 ± 0.4−6.08

Quinoline 7B−4.80 ± 0.6−4.3 ± 0.5−6.72

Pyrimidinketone 2B−4.90 ± 0.8−4.6 ± 0.3−6.21

LCAPs 8A>−4.00−6.86

Quinoline 7A>−4.00−4.8−6.83

Indole 2B>−4.00−4.6 ± 0.6−3.83

Pyrimidinketone 3B>−4.00NA−4.00

Indole 3E>−4.00>−4.00−3.70

Indole 3D>−4.00>−4.00−4.00

Pyrimidinketone 2D>−4.00>−4.00−4.00

5-FU−5.40 ± 0.7−5.1 ± 0.4

Each value represents the mean ± SD of six to eight wells. NA, not available.