JNJ-26854165 (Serdemetan) acts as a HDM2 ubiquitin ligase antagonist and also induces early apoptosis in p53 wild-type cells, inhibits cellular proliferation followed by delayed apoptosis in the absence of functional p53.

PAC-1 is a potent procaspase-3 activator with EC50 of 0.22 μM and the first small molecule known to directly activate procaspase-3 to caspase-3.

RITA (NSC 652287) induces both DNA-protein and DNA-DNA cross-s with no detectable DNA single-strand breaks, and also inhibits MDM2-p53 interaction by targeting p53.

AT101, the R-(-) enantiomer of Gossypol acetic acid, binds with Bcl-2, Bcl-xL and Mcl-1 with Ki of 0.32 μM, 0.48 μM and 0.18 μM in cell-free assays does not inhibit BIR3 domain and BID.

Apoptosis Activator 2 strongly induces caspase-3 activation, PARP cleavage, and DNA fragmentation which leads to the destruction of cells (Apaf-1 dependent) with IC50 of ~4 μM, inactive to HMEC, PREC, or MCF-10A cells.

Pifithrin-μ is a specific p53 inhibitor by reducing its affinity to Bcl-xL and Bcl-2, and also inhibits HSP70 function and autophagy.

Tenovin-6 is a small molecule activator of p53 transcriptional activity.

LCL-161, a small molecule second mitochondrial activator of caspase (SMAC) mimetic, potently binds to and inhibits multiple IAPs (i.e. XIAP, c-IAP).