- Fu, Dong-Jun;
- Zhao, Ruo-Han;
- Li, Jia-Huan;
- Yang, Jia-Jia;
- Mao, Ruo-Wang;
- Wu, Bo-Wen;
- Li, Ping;
- Zi, Xiao-Lin;
- Zhang, Qing-Qing;
- Cai, Hui-Jie;
- Zhang, Sai-Yang;
- Zhang, Yan-Bing;
- Liu, Hong-Min
Novel phenothiazine-dithiocarbamate analogues were designed by molecular hybridization strategy and synthesized and evaluated for their anticancer activity in vitro against three selected cancer cell lines (EC-109, MGC-803, and PC-3). The preliminary structure-activity relationship (SAR) for this phenothiazine-dithiocarbamate hybrids is explored. Among all analogues, 2-oxo-2-(10H-phenothiazin-10-yl)ethyl 4-ethylpiperazine-1-carbodithioate (8a) showed the most potent inhibitory activity with an [Formula: see text] value of [Formula: see text] against PC-3 cells. In addition, compound 8a could arrest the cell cycle at the G1 phase and regulate the expression of G1 checkpoint-related proteins, suggesting that phenothiazine-dithiocarbamate hybrids might be useful as cell cycle blockers.