Discovery of CRBN E3 Ligase Modulator CC-92480 for the Treatment of Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma

Autor: Courtney G. Havens, Correa Matthew D, Rama K. Narla, Frans Baculi, Kercher Timothy S, Thomas O. Daniel, Roy L. Harris, Brian E. Cathers, Matt Alexander, Mehran F. Moghaddam, Grant Virginia Heather Sharron, Veronique Plantevin, James Carmichael, Katalin Ebinger, Antonia Lopez-Girona, Gody Khambatta, Derek Mendy, Lawrence G Hamann, Joshua Hansen, Katerina Leftheris, Brandon Wade Whitefield, Joseph Piccotti, Nagy Mark A, Rupert Vessey, Yang Tang, Laurie LeBrun, Jim Leisten, Dehua Huang
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 63:6648-6676
ISSN: 1520-4804
0022-2623
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b01928
Popis: Many patients with multiple myeloma (MM) initially respond to treatment with modern combination regimens including immunomodulatory agents (lenalidomide and pomalidomide) and proteasome inhibitors. However, some patients lack an initial response to therapy (i.e., are refractory), and although the mean survival of MM patients has more than doubled in recent years, most patients will eventually relapse. To address this need, we explored the potential of novel cereblon E3 ligase modulators (CELMoDs) for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). We found that optimization beyond potency of degradation, including degradation efficiency and kinetics, could provide efficacy in a lenalidomide-resistant setting. Guided by both phenotypic and protein degradation data, we describe a series of CELMoDs for the treatment of RRMM, culminating in the discovery of CC-92480, a novel protein degrader and the first CELMoD to enter clinical development that was specifically designed for efficient and rapid protein degradation kinetics.
Databáze: OpenAIRE