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  2. Discovery of Covalent CDK14 Inhibitors with Pan-TAIRE Family Specificity

Discovery of Covalent CDK14 Inhibitors with Pan-TAIRE Family Specificity

  • Cell Chem Biol. 2019 Jun 20;26(6):804-817.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2019.02.015.
Fleur M Ferguson 1 Zainab M Doctor 1 Scott B Ficarro 2 Christopher M Browne 1 Jarrod A Marto 3 Jared L Johnson 4 Tomer M Yaron 5 Lewis C Cantley 4 Nam Doo Kim 6 Taebo Sim 7 Matthew J Berberich 8 Marian Kalocsay 8 Peter K Sorger 8 Nathanael S Gray 9
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
  • 2 Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Blais Proteomics Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
  • 3 Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Blais Proteomics Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
  • 4 Meyer Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.
  • 5 Meyer Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA; Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.
  • 6 Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
  • 7 Chemical Kinomics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea; KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • 8 HMS LINCS Center and Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • 9 Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address: nathanael_gray@dfci.harvard.edu.
Abstract

Cyclin-dependent kinase 14 (CDK14) and other TAIRE family kinases (CDKs 15-18) are proteins that lack functional annotation but are frequent off-targets of clinical kinase inhibitors. In this study we develop and characterize FMF-04-159-2, a tool compound that specifically targets CDK14 covalently and possesses a TAIRE kinase-biased selectivity profile. This tool compound and its reversible analog were used to characterize the cellular consequences of covalent CDK14 inhibition, including an unbiased investigation using phospho-proteomics. To reduce confounding off-target activity, washout conditions were used to deconvolute CDK14-specific effects. This investigation suggested that CDK14 plays a supporting role in cell-cycle regulation, particularly mitotic progression, and identified putative CDK14 substrates. Together, these results represent an important step forward in understanding the cellular consequences of inhibiting CDK14 kinase activity.

Keywords

CDK14; TAIRE kinase; cell cycle; covalent inhibitor; druggable genome; mitosis.

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