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Nature Chemical Biology 2, 63 - 64 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0206-63

Inhibitors of Bcr-abl... breaking new ground again

Jeffrey F Ohren1 & Judith S Sebolt-Leopold1

  1. Jeffrey F. Ohren is in Chemical Technologies and Judith S. Leopold is in Mechanistic and Target Biology, Ann Arbor Laboratories, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA. e-mail: Judith.Leopold@Pfizer.com.


The report of a new class of potent and highly selective inhibitors of Bcr-abl highlights the potential for a truly leukemia-specific drug with no expected off-target activity. GNF-2, as a representative compound of this class, may have inspired the identification of a region of Bcr-abl that is amenable to drug design, just as imatinib did almost a decade ago.

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