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A non-ATP-competitive inhibitor of BCR-ABL overrides imatinib resistance.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Feb 2005
Gumireddy Kiranmai, Baker Stacey J, Cosenza Stephen C, John Premila, Kang Anthony D, Robell Kimberly A, Reddy M V Ramana, Reddy E Premkumar
Abstract excerpt
Imatinib, which is an inhibitor of the BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase, has been a remarkable success for the treatment of Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) chronic myelogenous leukemias (CMLs). However, a significant proportion of patients chronically treated with imatinib develop resistance because of the acquisition of mutations in the kinase domain of BCR-ABL. Mutations occur at residues directly implicated in...
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