norcantharidin

Description: Norcantharidin (also known as NCTD) is a dual inhibitor of c-Met and EGFR. It has anticancer activity and can induce cell cycle arrest at G2/M phase in HCT116 and HT29 cells. NCTD inhibits not only the expression of the total EGFR and the p-EGFR (phosphorylated EGFR) but also the expression of the total c-Met and the pc-Met (phosphorylated c-Met) in colon cancer cells. Norcantharidin is also an inhibitor of protein phosphatase types 1, 2A and 2B, and can arrest the cell cycle at G2/M phase in K562 human myeloid leukemia cells, and inhibit DNA synthesis in HL-60 cells.

References: BMC Cancer. 2017 Jan 13; 17(1):55; Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int. 2010 Aug; 9(4):414-22.