Nature Communications (May 2021)

Discovery of first-in-class inhibitors of ASH1L histone methyltransferase with anti-leukemic activity

  • David S. Rogawski,
  • Jing Deng,
  • Hao Li,
  • Hongzhi Miao,
  • Dmitry Borkin,
  • Trupta Purohit,
  • Jiho Song,
  • Jennifer Chase,
  • Shuangjiang Li,
  • Juliano Ndoj,
  • Szymon Klossowski,
  • EunGi Kim,
  • Fengbiao Mao,
  • Bo Zhou,
  • James Ropa,
  • Marta Z. Krotoska,
  • Zhuang Jin,
  • Patricia Ernst,
  • Xiaomin Feng,
  • Gang Huang,
  • Kenichi Nishioka,
  • Samantha Kelly,
  • Miao He,
  • Bo Wen,
  • Duxin Sun,
  • Andrew Muntean,
  • Yali Dou,
  • Ivan Maillard,
  • Tomasz Cierpicki,
  • Jolanta Grembecka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23152-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The histone methyltransferase ASH1L plays a role in various diseases, including cancer, and has been validated as a therapeutic target; however, no inhibitors of ASH1L have been reported. Here the authors present small molecule inhibitors of ASH1L and demonstrate their on-target activity in leukemia cells and a mouse model of leukemia.