Findings Published successful the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Demonstrate Compound’s Exceptional Selectivity for mTORC1 implicit mTORC2
Tumor Regressions Observed During Combination Treatment with a Bi-Steric mTORC1-Selective Inhibitor and a KRASG12C-Selective Inhibitor successful Preclinical Lung Cancer Model that is Resistant to KRASG12C Inhibitor Monotherapy
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Revolution Medicines, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVMD), a clinical-stage oncology institution processing targeted therapies for RAS-addicted cancers, contiguous announced work of a manuscript successful the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry that details the find efforts starring to RMC-5552, the company’s first-in-class, bi-steric mTORC1-selective inhibitor. The manuscript describes the unprecedented compound illustration that includes 40-fold selectivity for mTORC1 implicit mTORC2 and greater than 53-fold selectivity implicit different lipid kinases. The insubstantial besides shows that selective mTORC1 inhibition utilizing the company’s related preclinical instrumentality compound (RMC-6272) successful operation with a covalent KRASG12C inhibitor induced tumor regressions successful a preclinical exemplary of KRASG12C mutant non-small compartment lung crab (NSCLC) that exhibits absorption to KRASG12C inhibitor monotherapy.
RMC-5552 is designed to suppress phosphorylation and inactivation of 4EBP1, a cardinal translational regulator of oncogene expression, successful cancers with hyperactive mTORC1 signaling. This bi-steric compound is designed to hindrance simultaneously to 2 antithetic sites connected mTORC1 to thrust heavy inhibition of mTORC1 portion maintaining selectivity for mTORC1 implicit mTORC2, a unsocial illustration compared to anterior generations of mTOR inhibitors. Revolution Medicines is presently evaluating RMC-5552 arsenic monotherapy successful a Phase 1/1b objective proceedings successful patients with refractory coagulated tumors (NCT04774952), and archetypal antitumor enactment has been reported. The institution plans to measure RMC-5552 successful operation with RAS(ON) inhibitors successful patients with cancers harboring mutations successful some RAS and the mTOR pathways.
“The Journal of Medicinal Chemistry manuscript details the blase structure-based chemic plan and synthesis employed by our cause find squad that produced RMC-5552,” said Steve Kelsey, M.D., president, probe and improvement astatine Revolution Medicines. “The differentiated antitumor and tolerability illustration of RMC-5552 successful the preclinical mounting compared to earlier mTORC inhibitors provides a beardown rationale for evaluating it successful patients with tumors that person abnormally precocious mTORC1 maturation signaling, including successful operation with our RAS(ON) Inhibitors successful patients with tumors that person some RAS and mTORC1 pathway co-mutations.”
The manuscript published successful the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry is titled, “Discovery of RMC-5552, a Selective Bi-Steric Inhibitor of mTORC1, for the Treatment of mTORC1-activated Tumors,” and tin beryllium accessed at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.2c01658
About mTORC1
The mTOR Complex 1 (mTORC1) is simply a cardinal node wrong the mTOR signaling pathway and a captious regulator of metabolism, growth, and proliferation successful crab cells. Oncogenic mutations of genes encoding proteins that prevarication upstream of mTOR, including PI3K, PTEN, and STK11, tin thrust abnormal activation of mTORC1 and consequent inactivation of the tumor suppressor 4EBP1. Selective inhibition of mTORC1 to reactivate 4EBP1 is simply a imaginable therapeutic strategy for patients with tumors bearing specified mutations. These mutations are often co-occurring with RAS mutations successful RAS-addicted tumors and combinations of mTORC1- and RAS-targeted inhibitors whitethorn beryllium of peculiar payment successful this context.
About Revolution Medicines, Inc.
Revolution Medicines is simply a clinical-stage oncology institution processing caller targeted therapies for RAS-addicted cancers. The company’s R&D pipeline comprises RAS(ON) Inhibitors designed to suppress divers oncogenic variants of RAS proteins, and RAS Companion Inhibitors for usage successful operation attraction strategies. The company’s RAS(ON) Inhibitors RMC-6236 (RASMULTI) and RMC-6291(KRASG12C) are presently successful objective development. Additional RAS(ON) Inhibitors successful the company’s pipeline see RMC-9805 (KRASG12D), presently successful IND-enabling development, RMC-8839 (KRASG13C), and further compounds targeting different RAS variants. RAS Companion Inhibitors successful objective improvement see RMC-4630 (SHP2) and RMC-5552 (mTORC1/4EBP1).
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