AZD 5438 is a potent oral inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases 1, 2, and 9, which leads to leads to pharmacodynamic changes and potent antitumor effects in human tumor xenografts.
azd5438 is a potent small molecule inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk) 1, 2 and 9 with half maximal inhibitory concentration ic50 of 16 nmol/l, 6 nmol/l and 20 nmol/l respectively. azd5438 has also been found to potently inhibit the human cyclin e/cdk2 complex, the cyclin b1/cdk1 complex and the cyclin a/cdk2 complex with ic50 of 0.006 μm, 0.016 μm and 0.045 μm respectively. in previous studies, azd5438 has exhibited significant anti-proliferative activity in a few human tumor cell lines with ic50 ranging from 0.2 μmol/l to 1.7 μmol/l, in which the phosphorylation of a few proteins, including cdk substrates prb, nucleolin, protein phosphatase 1a and rna polymerase ii cooh-terminal domain, and cell cycling at g2-m, s and g1 phases were inhibited.
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