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.