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Concomitant inhibition of multiple cancer-driving kinases is an established strategy to improve the durability of clinical responses to targeted therapies. The difficulty of discovering kinase inhibitors with an appropriate multitarget profile has, however, necessitated the application of combination therapies, which can pose major clinical development challenges. Epigenetic reader domains of the bromodomain family have recently emerged as new targets for cancer therapy. Here we report that several clinical kinase inhibitors also inhibit bromodomains with therapeutically relevant potencies and are best classified as dual kinase-bromodomain inhibitors. Nanomolar activity on BRD4 by BI-2536 and TG-101348, which are clinical PLK1 and JAK2-FLT3 kinase inhibitors, respectively, is particularly noteworthy as these combinations of activities on independent oncogenic pathways exemplify a new strategy for rational single-agent polypharmacological targeting. Furthermore, structure-activity relationships and co-crystal structures identify design features that enable a general platform for the rational design of dual kinase-bromodomain inhibitors.

Original publication

DOI

10.1038/nchembio.1471

Type

Journal article

Journal

Nat Chem Biol

Publication Date

04/2014

Volume

10

Pages

305 - 312

Keywords

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, Blotting, Western, Calorimetry, Cell Line, Tumor, Crystallization, Drug Design, Drug Interactions, Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor, Epigenesis, Genetic, High-Throughput Screening Assays, Humans, Neoplasms, Polypharmacology, Protein Kinase Inhibitors, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc, Pteridines, Pyrrolidines, Recombinant Proteins, Signal Transduction, Structure-Activity Relationship, Sulfonamides