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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Med Chem. 2019 Jan 24;62(3):1562–1576. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b01754

Table 6.

Parasiticidal activity for 1 and 3 in T. gondii infected human foreskin fibroblast cells as compared to the antiproliferative effects of 1 and 3 in MCF-7 cells

Compound T. gondii Cell-Based
EC50 (nM)a
MCF-7
EC50 (nM)b
Selectivity Indexc
3 13 ± 3.8 7300 560
1 680 ± 210 11,700 17
a

EC50=half maximal response concentration, average of at least 3 experiments (± SD).

b

MCF-7 cell viability determined using the MTT assay in triplicate (n = 1).

c

Selectivity index calculated as the MCF-7 EC50/Tg cell-based EC50.