Heteroaromatic compounds useful for the treatment of prolferative diseases
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Patent Type
- Applications(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- SYROS PHARMACEUTICALIS INC
- Publication Date
- 2016-09-15
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The members of the cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) family play critical regulatory roles in proliferation. Unique among the mammalian CDKs, CDK7 has consolidated kinase activities, regulating both the cell cycle and transcription. In the cytosol, CDK7 exists as a heterotrimeric complex and is believed to function as a CDK1 / 2-activating kinase (CAK), whereby phosphorylation of conserved residues in CDK1 / 2 by CDK7 is required for full catalytic CDK activity and cell cycle progression. In the nucleus, CDK7 forms the kinase core of the RNA polymerase (RNAP) II general transcription factor complex and is charged with phosphorylating the C-terminal domain (CTD) of RNAP II, a requisite step in gene transcriptional initiation Together, the two functions of CDK7, i.e., CAK and CTD phosphorylation, support critical facets of cellular proliferation, cell cycling, and transcription.
[0002] Disruption of RNAP II CTD phosphorylation has been shown to preferentially af...