EAI045

EAI045 is an allosteric inhibitor that targets selected drug-resistant EGFR mutants but spares the wild-type receptor.EAI045 potently inhibits EGFR Y1173 phosphorylation in H1975 cells (half maximal effective concentration (EC50)=2nM), but not in HaCaT cells, a keratinocyte cell line with wild-type EGFR. Despite potent inhibition of mutant EGFR, EAI045 shows no anti-proliferative effect in the H1975 and H3255 cell lines with concentrations as high as 10M[1]. EAI045 inhibits L858R/T790M mutant with an IC50 of 3 nM. However, EAI045 is not able to completely abolish EGFR autophosphorylation in H1975 NSCLC cell line harboring the L858R/T790M mutant. Dimerization-defective/independent mutants are markedly more sensitive to EAI045. Since EGFR dimerization is required for kinase enzyme activation, EAI045 may be active against one subunit of an EGFR heterodimer/asymmetric dimer