RASRAS-RAF-IN-1 is a potent RAS and RAS-RAFinhibitor. RASRAS-RAF-IN-1 has a KD of 5.0 μμ-15 μμ for cyclophilin A (CYPA) binding affinity. RASRAS-RAF-IN-1 has antitumor activity[1]. RASRAS-RAF-IN-1 (compound 89; for 4 hours) has an EC50 of 0.5 μμ-5.0 μμ for BRAF-GTP-KRAS-G12C disruption and has an IC50 of 1.0 μμ-10 μμ for pERK inhibition in H358 cells[1]. [1]. Meizhong Jin, et al. Compounds that participate in cooperative binding and uses thereof. WO2020132597A1.
The Survival of Motor Neurons (SMN) protein participates in RNA splicing. Decreases in SMN, typically a consequence of defects in the smn1 gene, result in the death of motor neurons and lead to the neurodegenerative disease, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Cuspin-1 is a small molecule upregulator of SMN that has been shown in vitro to increase levels of SMN in SMA patient fibroblasts by 50% at 18 μM. Its mechanism of action is thought to involve increased phosphorylation of ERK to initiate Ras-Raf-MEK signaling, which results in an increased rate of SMN translation.