Synonyms: compound 151 [US10781218B2] | KO-539 | KO539
Compound class:
Synthetic organic
Comment: We obtained the chemical structure for ziftomenib from WHO Proposed list 125 of July 2021. This mapped to PubChem CID 138497449, and to the small molecule KO-539 (Kura Oncology). KO-539 is an orally bioavailable, clinical stage agent that was designed to disrupt the protein-protein interaction between tumour suppressor menin (MEN1, O00255) and MLL oncoproteins (re-arranged lysine (K)-specific methyltransferases) as a mechanism to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML) [1,4]. The menin-MLL interaction is an essential upregulator of the expression of genes such as HOXA9 and MEIS1 that are involved in the development of AML. Blocking the menin-MLL interaction is predicted to induce terminal differentiation of AML blasts by reducing transcription of the HOXA9 and MEIS1 AML promoters. KO-539 binds to menin [3].
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Bioactivity Comments |
KO-539 displaces binding of MLL to menin with an IC50 of <50 nM, in a fluorescence polarization assay [3]. |