Mayako Michino, Tanweer A Khan, Michael W Miller, Yoshiyuki Fukase, Jeremie Vendome, Carolina Adura, J Fraser Glickman, Yiman Liu, Liling Wan, C David Allis, Andrew W Stamford, Peter T Meinke, Louis M Renzetti, Stacia Kargman, Nigel J Liverton, David J Huggins
Eleven-nineteen leukemia (ENL) is an epigenetic reader protein that drives oncogenic transcriptional programs in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). AML is one of the deadliest hematopoietic malignancies, with an overall 5-year survival rate of 27%. The epigenetic reader activity of ENL is mediated by its YEATS domain that binds to acetyl and crotonyl marks on histone tails and colocalizes with promoters of actively transcribed genes that are essential for leukemia. Prior to the discovery of TDI-11055 , existing inhibitors of ENL YEATS showed in vitro potency, but had not shown efficacy in in vivo animal models...
April 11, 2024: ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters