C012 Dihydrochloride is a novel small molecule compound that sensitized BRAF wild-type melanoma cells to verofenib. It can significantly reduce the activity of melanoma cells and has limited toxicity to normal human fibroblasts.
Downregulate phosphorylation of STAT3, increase the expression of cleaved caspase-3, inhibit cell cycle progression and promote apoptosis in breast and pancreatic cancer cells with low micromolar to nanomolar IC50 values. Furthermore, HJC-0123 significantly suppressed estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer MDA-MB-231 xenograft tumor growth in vivo (p.o.), indicating its great potential as an efficacious and orally bioavailable drug candidate for human cancer therapy.