RETRACTED: Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of heterotetracyclic quinolinone derivatives as anticancer agents targeting topoisomerases

Jiann-Fong Lee; Ting-Yu Chang; Zheng-Fang Liu; Nian-Zhe Lee; Yen-Hsiu Yeh; Yi-Song Chen; Tsung-Chih Chen; Hao-Syun Chou; Tsai-Kun Li; Sung-Bau Lee; Mei-Hsiang Lin

doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112074

RETRACTED: Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of heterotetracyclic quinolinone derivatives as anticancer agents targeting topoisomerases

Eur J Med Chem. 2020 Mar 15:190:112074. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112074. Epub 2020 Jan 30.

Authors

Jiann-Fong Lee¹, Ting-Yu Chang², Zheng-Fang Liu³, Nian-Zhe Lee⁴, Yen-Hsiu Yeh⁵, Yi-Song Chen⁵, Tsung-Chih Chen⁶, Hao-Syun Chou⁶, Tsai-Kun Li⁵, Sung-Bau Lee⁷, Mei-Hsiang Lin⁸

Affiliations

¹ School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Pharmacy, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
² PhD Program in Biotechnology Research and Development, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Master Program in Clinical Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacoproteomics, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Master Program in Clinical Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacoproteomics, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁵ Graduate Institute of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁶ 3SM Biotron, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁷ PhD Program in Biotechnology Research and Development, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Master Program in Clinical Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacoproteomics, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁸ School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.

PMID: 32045788
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112074

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the authors. The authors regret to inform that they would like to withdraw this accepted article, due to serious errors in authorship, affiliations, material sources and supporting grant names/numbers. The authors sincerely apologize for these oversights and miscommunications the study caused.

Keywords: Dual inhibitor; Thiochromeno[2,3-c]quinolin-12-one; Topoisomerase.

Publication types

Retracted Publication