Table 1.

Cytotoxicity of β-amino (2) and β-aryl (4, 9) polyamides targeting the sequence 5′-WGWWCW-3′ toward alternative cancer cell lines

Polyamide	Cell line
	A549	LNCaP	HCT-116	MCF-7
2	3155 ± 1895	2550 ± 91	4680 ± 954	24400 ± 9530
4	35 ± 9	28 ± 12	106 ± 18	666 ± 168
9	37 ± 17	109 ± 19	136 ± 13	470 ± 77

Growth inhibition values represent the mean and standard deviation of three biological replicates.