“…While searching for such agents, we focused on chromones, which have been linked with antibacterial, antifungal, and antitumor activities (1). In particular, we focused on 3-formylchromone (3-FC), 3 which has been shown to exhibit antibacterial (2), anti-inflammatory (3), and antitumor (2, 4 -6) activities. How this agent exhibits all these activities is not fully understood, but inhibition of protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B (7), chelation of bivalent cations (8), multidrug resistance (5), p56 lck tyrosine kinase (9), and thymidine phosphorylase (10) have been implicated.…”