Entinostat (also known as MS-275 or SNDX-275), a derivative of 2-aminophenyl benzamides, is a potent and orally-available inhibitor of histone deacetylases (HDACs), a family of enzymes associated with a variety of well-characterized cellular oncogenes and tumor suppressors, that potently inhibits class I HDACs, including HDAC1, HDAC3 and HDAC8, with values of 50% inhibition concentration IC50 of 0.368 μM, 0.501 μM and 63.4 μM respectively. Entinostat has been widely investigated for the treatment of cancer, in which results have shown the in vitro anti-proliferative activity of entinostat in a wide range of human cancer cell lines, including breast, colon, lung, myeloma, ovary, pancreas, prostate and leukemia.
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