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Clin Cancer Res. 2010 Jan 15;16(2):566-76. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-09-1498. Epub 2010 Jan 12.

Activity of the kinesin spindle protein inhibitor ispinesib (SB-715992) in models of breast cancer.

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

James W Purcell, Jefferson Davis, Mamatha Reddy, Shamra Martin, Kimberly Samayoa, Hung Vo, Karen Thomsen, Peter Bean, Wen Lin Kuo, Safiyyah Ziyad, Jessica Billig, Heidi S Feiler, Joe W Gray, Kenneth W Wood, Sylvaine Cases

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  1. Cytokinetics, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080, USA.

PMID: 20068098 PMCID: PMC2844774 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-09-1498

Abstract

PURPOSE: Ispinesib (SB-715992) is a potent inhibitor of kinesin spindle protein, a kinesin motor protein essential for the formation of a bipolar mitotic spindle and cell cycle progression through mitosis. Clinical studies of ispinesib have shown a 9% response rate in patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer and a favorable safety profile without significant neurotoxicities, gastrointestinal toxicities, or hair loss. To better understand the potential of ispinesib in the treatment of breast cancer, we explored the activity of ispinesib alone and in combination with several therapies approved for the treatment of breast cancer.

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We measured the ispinesib sensitivity and pharmacodynamic response of breast cancer cell lines representative of various subtypes in vitro and as xenografts in vivo and tested the ability of ispinesib to enhance the antitumor activity of approved therapies.

RESULTS: In vitro, ispinesib displayed broad antiproliferative activity against a panel of 53 breast cell lines. In vivo, ispinesib produced regressions in each of five breast cancer models and tumor-free survivors in three of these models. The effects of ispinesib treatment on pharmacodynamic markers of mitosis and apoptosis were examined in vitro and in vivo, revealing a greater increase in both mitotic and apoptotic markers in the MDA-MB-468 model than in the less sensitive BT-474 model. In vivo, ispinesib enhanced the antitumor activity of trastuzumab, lapatinib, doxorubicin, and capecitabine and exhibited activity comparable with paclitaxel and ixabepilone.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings support further clinical exploration of kinesin spindle protein inhibitors for the treatment of breast cancer.

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