Article
Asciminib in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia after ABL Kinase Inhibitor Failure.
The New England journal of medicine - 12 Dec 2019
Hughes Timothy P, Mauro Michael J, Cortes Jorge E, Minami Hironobu, Rea Delphine, DeAngelo Daniel J, Breccia Massimo, Goh Yeow-Tee, Talpaz Moshe, Hochhaus Andreas, le Coutre Philipp, Ottmann Oliver, Heinrich Michael C, Steegmann Juan L, Deininger Michael W N, Janssen Jeroen J W M, Mahon Francois-Xavier, Minami Yosuke, Yeung David, Ross David M, Tallman Martin S, Park Jae H, Druker Brian J, Hynds David, Duan Yuyan, Meille Christophe, Hourcade-Potelleret Florence, Vanasse K Gary, Lang Fabian, Kim Dong-Wook
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Asciminib is an allosteric inhibitor that binds a myristoyl site of the BCR-ABL1 protein, locking BCR-ABL1 into an inactive conformation through a mechanism distinct from those for all other ABL kinase inhibitors. Asciminib targets both native and mutated BCR-ABL1, including the gatekeeper T315I mutant. The safety and antileukemic activity of asciminib in patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive...
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