title: Antitumoral cyclic peptide analogues of chlamydocin.
abstract: A series of cyclic tetrapeptides bearing the bioactive alkylating group on an epsilon-amino-lysyl function have been examined for their antitumoral activity on L1210 and P388 murine leukemia cell lines. One analogue belonging to the chlamydocin family and bearing a beta-chloroethylnitrosourea group was found to be potent at inhibiting L1210 cell proliferation and had a higher therapeutic index than the reference compound bis-beta-chloroethylnitrosourea (BCNU) on the in vivo P388-induced leukemia model.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire des Aminoacides et des Peptides, CNRS-URA 468, Université Montpellier II, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bernardi
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Fauchere
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Atassi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Viallefont
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lazaro
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000494:pharmacology; D004354:Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor; D005260:Female; D007939:Leukemia L1210 / Q000188:drug therapy; D007941:Leukemia P388 / Q000188:drug therapy; D008239:Lysine; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008811:Mice, Inbred DBA; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010456:Peptides, Cyclic / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic; D010456:Peptides, Cyclic; C006963:chlamydocin; D008239:Lysine