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Humanized Mcl-1 mice enable accurate preclinical evaluation of MCL-1 inhibitors destined for clinical use.
Blood - 11 Oct 2018
Brennan Margs S, Chang Catherine, Tai Lin, Lessene Guillaume, Strasser Andreas, Dewson Grant, Kelly Gemma L, Herold Marco J
Abstract excerpt
Myeloid cell leukemia-1 (MCL-1) is a prosurvival B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2) family member required for the sustained growth of many cancers. Recently, a highly specific MCL-1 inhibitor, S63845, showing sixfold higher affinity to human compared with mouse MCL-1, has been described. To accurately test efficacy and tolerability of this BH3-mimetic (BH3-only protein mimetic) drug in preclinical cancer models, we...
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