Ek. Lehnert et al., DNA TOPOISOMERASE-II INHIBITION BY SUBSTITUTED 1,2,3,4-TETRAHYDRO-BETA-CARBOLINE DERIVATIVES, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 4(20), 1994, pp. 2411-2416
A series of 1-aryl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carbolines were synthesized
, as ''truncated'' analogs of the novel agent, azatoxin, and assayed i
n vitro for their ability to induce protein-associated DNA strand brea
ks in the presence of DNA and human DNA topoisomerase II.