Get Rid Of AG-1478 ALK Inhibitor Problems Without Delay

We detected no major inhibitory effects of our compound on phospho Akt and phospho ERK1/2 ranges in all cell lines tested.

Small molecule inhibitors of JAK/STAT signaling have already been shown to repress cell proliferation by affecting cell viability within a number of sound tumor cell lines, also as in blood malignant AG-1478 cell lines, suggesting the critical role of JAK/STAT signaling in the proliferation of cancer cells. Because NSC114792 selectively inhibited JAK3/STAT signaling, we hypothesized that ALK Inhibitor treatment with our compound would affect cell viability only in cancer cells that express constitutively active JAK3/ STATs. We assessed if NSC114792 can reduce viability of L540, HDLM 2, MDA MB 468, and DU145 cells. Cells were treated with either vehicle alone, NSC114792 at different concentrations or AG490, and they were incubated for various time periods. We found that NSC114792 decreases cell viability only in L540 cells with persistent JAK3 activation, in a time and dose dependent manner, but not in HDLM 2, MDAMB 468 and DU145 which lack persistently active JAK3.

To gain more insights into the molecular mechanism by which NSC114792 induces apoptosis in L540 cells, we assessed if it can induce an increase in the cleavage of PARP and caspase ALK Inhibitor 3, both of which are hallmarks of apoptosis. As expected, treatment with the compound increased both PARP and caspase 3 cleaved fragments in a dose dependent manner. We next examined the effect of this compound on the expression of anti apoptotic genes, which are known STAT targets. L540 cells were treated with NSC114792 for 48 hours, and then the whole cell extracts were processed for Western blot analysis using antibodies specific for Bcl 2, Bcl xL, Mcl 1, and Survivin. The expression of these proteins was inhibited by treatment with NSC114792 in a dose dependent manner, whereas the levels of GAPDH remained unchanged.

In vitro kinase assays revealed that addition of this compound to the JAK3 immunoprecipitates causes a significant block in JAK3 kinase activity.