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Overriding Imatinib Resistance with a Novel ABL Kinase Inhibitor

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BMS-354825 is an orally bioavailable ABL kinase inhibitor with two-log increased potency relative to imatinib that retains activity against 14 of 15 imatinIB-resistant BCR-ABL mutants and illustrates how molecular insight into kinase inhibitors resistance can guide the design of second-generation targeted therapies.
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Resistance to the ABL kinase inhibitor imatinib (STI571 or Gleevec) in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) occurs through selection for tumor cells harboring BCR-ABL kinase domain point mutations that interfere with drug binding. Crystallographic studies predict that most imatinib-resistant mutants should remain sensitive to inhibitors that bind ABL with less stringent conformational requirements. BMS-354825 is an orally bioavailable ABL kinase inhibitor with two-log increased potency relative to imatinib that retains activity against 14 of 15 imatinib-resistant BCR-ABL mutants. BMS-354825 prolongs survival of mice with BCR-ABL-driven disease and inhibits proliferation of BCR-ABL-positive bone marrow progenitor cells from patients with imatinib-sensitive and imatinib-resistant CML. These data illustrate how molecular insight into kinase inhibitor resistance can guide the design of second-generation targeted therapies.

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Efficacy and Safety of a Specific Inhibitor of the BCR-ABL Tyrosine Kinase in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

TL;DR: STI571 is well tolerated and has significant antileukemic activity in patients with CML in whom treatment with interferon alfa had failed and demonstrates the potential for the development of anticancer drugs based on the specific molecular abnormality present in a human cancer.
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Effects of a selective inhibitor of the Abl tyrosine kinase on the growth of Bcr-Abl positive cells.

TL;DR: A compound, designed to inhibit the Abl protein tyrosine kinase, was evaluated for its effects on cells containing the Bcr–Abl fusion protein and it was found that this compound may be useful in the treatment of bcr–abl–positive leukemias.
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Clinical resistance to STI-571 cancer therapy caused by BCR-ABL gene mutation or amplification

TL;DR: It is found that drug resistance is associated with the reactivation of BCR-ABL signal transduction in all cases examined and a strategy for identifying inhibitors of STI-571 resistance is suggested.
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Structural mechanism for STI-571 inhibition of abelson tyrosine kinase

TL;DR: The results suggest that compounds that exploit the distinctive inactivation mechanisms of individual protein kinases can achieve both high affinity and high specificity.
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