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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-2-5
pubmed:abstractText
Systemic mastocytosis (SM) is a rare disease caused by an abnormal mast cell accumulation in various tissues. Two classes of constitutive activating c-kit mutations are found in SM. The most frequent class occurs in the catalytic pocket coding region with substitutions at codon 816 and the other in the intracellular juxtamembrane coding region. Therefore, kinase inhibitors that block mutated c-kit activity might be used as therapeutic agents in SM. Here, we show that STI571 inhibits both wild-type and juxtamembrane mutant c-kit kinase activity, but has no effect on the activity of the D816 V mutant. Accordingly, STI571 selectively decreases the survival of normal mast cell and of mast cell lines either with juxtamembrane c-kit mutations, but not that of tumoral mast cell from patient with SM or of mast cell lines with the D816 V mutation. Therefore, STI571 is not a good candidate to treat SM and specific kinase inhibitors should be designed to inhibit constitutive activating mutations at codon 816.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0950-9232
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
6
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
660-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Effect of tyrosine kinase inhibitor STI571 on the kinase activity of wild-type and various mutated c-kit receptors found in mast cell neoplasms.
pubmed:affiliation
CNRS UMR 8603, Hôpital Necker, Université René Descartes, Paris, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article