Inclusion of a 5-fluorouracil moiety in nitrogenous bases derivatives as human carbonic anhydrase IX and XII inhibitors produced a targeted action against MDA-MB-231 and T47D breast cancer cells

A new series of pyrimidine derivatives as human carbonic anhydrases (CA, EC 4.2.1.1) inhibitors is here designed by including a 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) moiety, broadly used anticancer medication, in nitrogenous base modulators of the tumor-associated CAs. Most sulfonamide derivatives efficiently inhibit the target CA IX (KIs in the range 0.47–44.7 nM) and CA XII (KIs in the range 2.9–83.1 nM), while the 5-FU coumarin derivatives showed a potent...