CDKI-83 is a potent CDK9 inhibitor. The compound shows effective anti-proliferative activity in human tumour cell lines with GI50 <1 μM, and is capable of inducing apoptosis in A2780 human ovarian cancer cells as determined by the activated caspase-3, Annexin V PI double staining and accumulated cells at the sub-G1 phase of cellcycle. The research results suggest that combined inhibition of CDK9 and CDK1 may result in the effective induction of apoptosis and CDKI-83 has the potential to be developed as an anti-cancer agent.
Indirubin-5-sulfonate shows inhibitory activity against GSK-3β. Indirubin-5-sulfonate is a cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor, with IC50 values of 55 nM, 35 nM, 150 nM, 300 nM and 65 nM for CDK1 cyclin B, CDK2 cyclin A, CDK2 cyclin E, CDK4 cyclin D1,
Riviciclib is a potent inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)(CDK9-cyclinT1, CDK4-cyclin D1, and CDK1-cyclinB with IC50s of 20 nM, 63 nM, and 79 nM, respectively),with antitumor activity on cisplatin-resistant cells.