The Design of Potent and Selective Inhibitors to Overcome Clinical Alk Mutations Resistant to Crizotinib.
Huang, Q., Johnson, T.W., Bailey, S., Brooun, A., Bunker, K.D., Burke, B.J., Collins, M.R., Cook, A., Cui, J.J., Dack, K.N., Deal, J.G., Deng, Y., Dinh, D.M., Engstrom, L.D., He, M., Hoffman, J., Hoffman, R.L., Shen, H., Johnson, P., Kania, R.S., Lam, H., Lam, J.L., Le, P., Li, Q., Lingardo, L., Liu, W., West Lu, M., Mctigue, M.A., Palmer, C.L., Richardson, P.F., Sach, N.W., Smeal, T., Smith, G.L., Stewart, A.E., Timofeevski, S.L., Tsaparikos, K., Wang, H., Zhu, H., Zhu, J., Zou, H.Y., Edwards, M.(2014) J Med Chem 57: 1170
- PubMed: 24432909 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jm401805h
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
2YFX, 2YHV, 4ANL, 4ANQ, 4CCB, 4CCU, 4CD0 - PubMed Abstract: 
Crizotinib (1), an anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2011, is efficacious in ALK and ROS positive patients. Under pressure of crizotinib treatment, point mutations arise in the kinase domain of ALK, resulting in resistance and progressive disease. The successful application of both structure-based and lipophilic-efficiency-focused drug design resulted in aminopyridine 8e, which was potent across a broad panel of engineered ALK mutant cell lines and showed suitable preclinical pharmacokinetics and robust tumor growth inhibition in a crizotinib-resistant cell line (H3122-L1196M).
Organizational Affiliation: 
La Jolla Laboratories, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development , 10770 Science Center Drive, San Diego, California 92121, United States.