Epothilone B is a microtubule stabilizer (MSA) with a K_i of 0.71μM, and is a MSA with blood-brain barrier permeability. Epothilone B acts by binding to the αβ-tubulin heterodimer subunit which causes decreasing of αβ-tubulin dissociation^[1][2][3][4].

EC0.01: 1.8 μM (Microtubule/Tubulin)^[1]

Epothilone B inhibits HCT116 cells with IC₅₀ of 0.8 nM in HCT-116 cell line cytotoxicity assay^[1]. Epothilone B (Patupilone) is a microtubule (MT) targeting agent. As shown by MTT cell proliferation assay, after 72 h of treatment Epothilone B efficiently inhibits cell growth with an IC₅₀ of 6 nM, while concentrations ≤1 nM are not cytotoxic. Epothilone B significantly inhibits transwell cell migration at the non-cytotoxic concentration of 1 nM, and the effect is more evident at 10 nM^[2]. Epothilone B (Patupilone) is a novel, non-taxane-related and nonneurotoxic microtubule-stabilizing agent in human medulloblastoma cell lines. Epothilone B reduces the proliferative activity in the D341 cell line, with an IC₅₀ of 0.53 nM; in the D425Med cell line, with an IC₅₀ of 0.37 nM; and in the DAOY cell line, with an IC₅₀ of 0.19 nM. In the D341Med cell line, the effect of Epothilone B on clonogenic survival is at dose range of Epothilone B similar to the level of proliferative activity and viability (IC₅₀, 0.50-0.75 nM). However, the clonogenicity of D425Med and DAOY cells is already strongly reduced at a 10-fold lower concentration of Epothilone B (IC₅₀, 30 pM). These results overall demonstrate that Epothilone B is highly potent against different medulloblastoma cell lines^[3].

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