Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of a series of novel AXL kinase inhibitors

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 907-912

  Mollard, Alexis ^a   Warner, Steven L ^a   Call, Lee T ^a   Wade, Mark L ^a   Bearss, Jared J ^a   Verma, Anupam ^a   Sharma, Sunil ^a   Vankayalapati, Hariprasad ^a   Bearss, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

anticancer; AXL kinase inhibitors; structure activity relationship

Indexed keywords

BMS 777607; CRIZOTINIB; PROTEIN AXL; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; R 428; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 83455165058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19485875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ml200198x     Document Type: Article

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