BS-181 HCl

CDK7

416, 99

MCF-7 cells are established in female nu/nu-BALB/c athymic nude mice

Dissolved in DMSO, final concentration ca.50 uM

Prepared in the vehicle of 10% DMSO / 50 mM HCl / 5% Tween 20 / 85% saline.

BS-181 is a small molecule inhibitor of CDK7 in a cell-free environment, which displays more potential activity than roscovitine with IC 50 of 510 nM. Among the CDKs and other 69 kinases from many different classes, BS-181 shows high inhibitory selectivity for CDK7, inhibits CDK2 at concentrations lower than 1 uM which being inhibited 35-fold less potently (IC50 with 880 nM) than CDK7, shows slight inhibition for CDK1, CDK4, CDK5, CDK6 and CDK9 with IC50 values higher than 3.0 uM, and only shows inhibition for several kinases from other classes at high concentrations (>10 uM). BS-181 promotes cell cycle arrest and inhibits the cancer cell growth of a range of tumor types, including breast, lung, prostate and colorectal cancer with IC50 in the range of 11.5-37 uM. In MCF-7 cells, BS-181 inhibits the phosphorylation of the CDK7 substrate RNA polymerase II COOH-terminal domain (CTD), and promotes cell cycle arrest and apoptosis to inhibit the growth of cancer cell lines. [1]

24 hours

MCF-7 cells are exposed to BS-181 for 24 hours. For the determination of cell cycle and apoptosis, cells are stained with propidium iodide or labeled with Annexin V-FITC, then labeled cells are acquired within 1 hour, by using the RXP cytomics software on a Beckman Coulter Elite ESP, and the data are analyzed using Flow Jo v7.2.5. For the assessment of CDKs, cells are lysed and analyzed by western blotting.

BS-181 HCl is a highly selective CDK7 inhibitor with IC50 of 21 nM. It is more than 40-fold selective for CDK7 than CDK1, 2, 4, 5, 6, or 9.

BS-181 shows higher inhibitory selectivity for CDK7 than other CDKs and kinases from many different classes.