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| Description: | Thus, while these compounds were extensively used in studying ILK-mediated cellular and disease processes, their reported inhibitory effects are probably due to unknown artifacts or indirect binding events. Next, we turned our attention to previously reported studies on kinase profiling and quantitative chemical proteomics. These studies suggested that a widely known lung cancer drug erlotinib, which targets EGFR, might also bind to ILK as an off target. By performing a robust fluorescence-based binding assay, we found that the FDA approved drug Erlotinib (TARCEVA) indeed binds potently to purified recombinant ILK at KD 0.43M, which is very close to the affinity of Erlotinib to EGFR measured at the same experimental conditions (KD 0.31 μM). Another erlotinib-like EGFR inhibitor Gefitinib exhibited 10-fold weaker binding affinity to ILK (KD 4.51 μM) yet 3-fold stronger affinity to EGFR (KD 0.11 μM) than erlotinib. |
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