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. 2020 Mar 20;14(3):e0008150. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008150

Table 2. Pharmacokinetic and cytotoxicity properties.

Drug Anisomycin Prodigiosin Obatoclax Nithiamide
in vivo data
Animal rat mouse mouse mouse
Toxicity LD50: 72mg/kg (oral) 1 LD50: 18mg/kg (ip) 2 >5mg/kg (IV) 3 LD50: 300mg/kg (ip) 4
Cmax in μM 0.01 (150mg/kg subQ) 5 na 0.24 (4.8mg/kg IV) 6 na
Cytotox (CC50)
HepG2 0.39μM 0.21μM 0.21μM no activity
HEK293 0.08μM 0.13μM 0.8μM no activity
MDCK na no activity 7 1.4μM 8 na
PBMCs na 241μM 9 >4μM 3 na
Vero 45μM 10 na 6.6μM 11 na
CHO na na na no activity 12
Huh-7 2.4μM 13 na 0.38μM 14 na
A549 no activity 15 na 9.9μM 16 na
hFF-1 >25μM 0.14μM 0.11μM no activity

LD50 and Cmax for published animal studies, and a selection of publicly available cytotoxicity data for each compound are shown. Route of administration and dosage in parenthesis. 'na' indicates that no data was available. Results for HepG2 and HEK293 cytotoxicity from Calibr (reframedb.org). Cytotoxicity against human foreskin fibroblast cells (hFF-1) was determined as mentioned in methods. Other data are as follows: 1. [24]; 2. [25]; 3. [26] Truedel 2007; 4. [27]; 5. [28]; 6. [29]; 7. [30]; 8. [31]; 9. [32]; 10. [33]; 11. [34]; 12. [35]; 13. [36] (pubchem AID:449705); 14. [37] (pubchem AID:742238); 15. [38] (pubchem AID:720523); 16. [39]