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SUBMITTER: Levinson NM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3947016 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Levinson Nicholas M NM Boxer Steven G SG
Nature chemical biology 20131201 2
Kinase inhibitors are important cancer drugs, but they tend to display limited target specificity, and their target profiles are often challenging to rationalize in terms of molecular mechanism. Here we report that the clinical kinase inhibitor bosutinib recognizes its kinase targets by engaging a pair of conserved structured water molecules in the active site and that many other kinase inhibitors share a similar recognition mechanism. Using the nitrile group of bosutinib as an infrared probe, w ...[more]