MKC-1 Is a Novel Agent That Induces Cell Cycle Arrest and Disrupts Multiple Survival Pathways in Hematologic Cancers.
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Abstract
Abstract MKC-1 is a novel, orally active cell cycle inhibitor with in vitro and in vivo activity against a wide range of human solid tumor cell lines, including multi-drug resistant cell lines. MKC-1 has been tested in over 270 patients to date and is currently in Phase II clinical trials. The strong pre-clinical activity of MKC-1 towards solid tumor lines and signs of efficacy in the initial clinical evaluation with lack of neuropathy and cardiotoxicity suggests that MKC-1 may also be of clinical benefit in the treatment of hematopoietic cancers. The antiproliferative activity of MKC-1 was examined against a panel of hematopoietic cell lines including HL-60, U937, MV4;11, THP-1, Jurkat, and OCI-AML 1–5. MKC-1 showed potent and dose-dependent activity towards these cell lines, with IC50 values in the range of 20 – 400 nM. MKC-1 also inhibited in vitro growth of primary cells derived from AML and CML patients. Additionally, MKC-1 showed enhanced activity with Ara-C in combination studies in vitro when added either simultaneously or sequentially using the cell line OCI-AML 4. Binding studies have shown that MKC-1 binds to the colchicine binding site of tubulin and to members of the importin beta family of proteins. Consistent with these results, cell cycle arrest in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle followed by apoptosis was observed in cell lines and patient samples treated with MKC-1. Immunofluorescence analysis of cells treated with MKC-1 revealed that the drug induced a disruption of the microtubule network and the formation of aberrant mitotic spindles. Furthermore, MKC-1 was also shown to induce a dose-dependent reduction in the levels of both phospho-Akt and phospho-p70S6K kinases through Western blot analysis of treated THP-1 cells. In conclusion, our results indicate MKC-1 arrests the cell cycle and disrupts multiple survival pathways to induce apoptosis in hematopoietic cell lines and patient samples. These results suggest that MKC-1 may have clinical potential in the treatment of leukemia either alone or in combination with other agents. Phase I trials in hematological cancers are currently being explored.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
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