Background:

Nilotinib is a selective, oral inhibitor of tyrosine kinase with IC50 values of 20, 42, 31, 38, 29 and 41 nM for the autophosphorylation of native BCR-ABL (WT p210) and mutant BCR-ABL (E281K, E292K, F317L, M351T and F486S), respectively [1].

Nilotinib was designed based on the structure of imatinib and showed the superiority over imatinib in newly diagnosed or imatinib-resistant chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). It was more potent than imatinib to wild-type BCR-ABL in a wide range of CML-derived and transfected cell lines. Nilotinib was also efficacious in gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Nilotinib showed inhibition activities in KIT mutant cells, including KITV560del, KITK642E and KITV560G (IC50 value of 108 nM). It also was effect to double mutations of KIT, such as KITV560del/V654A, KITV559D/D820Y, KITV560del/V654A (IC50: 192 nM) and KITV559D/D820Y (IC50: 297 nM). Besides that, Nilotinib exerted selective inhibition of PDGFRα and PDGFRβ. It suppressed cell proliferation with IC50 value of 0.54 nM in EOL-1 cells with constitutive activation of FIP1L1-PDGFRα [1, 2].

参考文献:
[1] Weisberg E, Manley P, Mestan J, et al. AMN107 (nilotinib): a novel and selective inhibitor of BCR-ABL. British Journal of Cancer, 2006, 94(12): 1765-1769.
[2] Blay J Y, Von Mehren M. Nilotinib: a novel, selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor//Seminars in oncology. WB Saunders, 2011, 38: S3-S9.