Background:

SCH772984, identified by an affinity-based mass spectroscopy high-throughput platform, is a novel, potent and ATP-competitive inhibition of ERK1 and ERK2 with 50% inhibition concentration IC₅₀values of 4 nmol/L and 1 nmol/L respectively. Although it displays behaviors of both type I and type II kinase inhibitors, SCH772984 is highly selective against only seven kinases, including CLK2, FLT4, GSG2, MAP4K4, MAPK1, MINK1, PRKD1 and TTK, out of a wide range of 300 tested with more than 50% inhibition at a concentration of 1 μmol/L. Study results have shown that SCH772984 potently inhibits tumor cells with mutations in BRAF, NRAS and KRAS at nanomolar concentrations.

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