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  2. Development of an Orally Bioavailable LCK PROTAC Degrader as a Potential Therapeutic Approach to T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Development of an Orally Bioavailable LCK PROTAC Degrader as a Potential Therapeutic Approach to T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

  • J Med Chem. 2024 Jul 8. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c00481.
Jamie A Jarusiewicz 1 Satoshi Yoshimura 2 Marisa Actis 1 Yong Li 1 Xiang Fu 1 Lei Yang 1 Shilpa Narina 3 Shondra M Pruett-Miller 3 Suiping Zhou 4 Xusheng Wang 4 Anthony A High 4 Gisele Nishiguchi 1 Jun J Yang 2 Zoran Rankovic 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
  • 2 Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
  • 3 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Center for Advanced Genome Engineering, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
  • 4 Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Abstract

Despite significant advances over recent years, the treatment of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) remains challenging. We have recently shown that a subset of T-ALL cases exhibited constitutive activation of the Lymphocyte-Specific Protein Tyrosine Kinase (Lck) and were consequently responsive to treatments with Lck inhibitors and degraders such as dasatinib and dasatinib-based PROTACs. Here we report the design, synthesis and in vitro/vivo evaluation of SJ45566, a potent and orally bioavailable LCK PROTAC.

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