ReviewLeukemia2015
Discovery and development of the Polo-like kinase inhibitor volasertib in cancer therapy.
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132 citing papers in PubMed.
- The landscape of gene co-expression modules correlating with prognostic genetic abnormalities in AML.Journal of translational medicine · 2021Trial
- Population Pharmacokinetics of Volasertib Administered in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia as a Single Agent or in Combination with Cytarabine.Clinical pharmacokinetics · 2018Trial
- Synthesis, molecular modelling and evaluation of (-)-isopulegol-based 2,4-diaminopyrimidines as promising aurora kinase inhibitors.RSC medicinal chemistry · 2026Article
- p97 Inhibition Synergistically Enhances Hypomethylating Therapy through Targeting of PLK1 in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.Cancer research communications · 2026Article
- Monoclonal Antibodies Accessing the Cytosol of Living Cells and Binding to Polo-Like Kinase 1 Interdomain Linker Affect Mitotic Behavior.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026Article
- Tetrahymena JanusA gene encodes a polo kinase whose loss triggers a dorsal/ventral intracellular homeosis.Current biology : CB · 2026Article
- PLK1 inhibition by volasertib suppresses key transcriptional regulators underlying fibroblast activation and pulmonary fibrosis.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2026Article
- ERCC6L in human cancers: oncogenic functions, molecular mechanisms, and clinical implications as a prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
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- Human Retinal Organoid Modeling Defines Developmental Window and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in MYCN-Amplified Retinoblastoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- COG133 peptide-conjugated lipid nanoparticles sensitize medulloblastoma to radiation therapy in mice.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2025Article
- Investigation of ribociclib, abemaciclib and palbociclib resistance in ER+ breast cancer cells reveal potential therapeutic opportunities`.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- PLK1 inhibitors for the treatment of colorectal cancer.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
- Deep transfer learning approach for automated cell death classification reveals novel ferroptosis-inducing agents in subsets of B-ALL.Cell death & disease · 2025Article
- MLN0905, a new inhibitor of Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1), enhances the efficiency of lenalidomide in promoting the apoptosis of multiple myeloma cell lines.Investigational new drugs · 2025Article
- A deep learning framework forNational science review · 2025Article
- Integrative genomic and single-cell framework identifies druggable targets for colorectal cancer precision therapy.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- The status of p53 affects the efficacy of PLK1 inhibitor BI6727 in prostate cancer cells.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Article
- PLK1 overexpression suppresses homologous recombination and confers cellular sensitivity to PARP inhibition.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Resistance to spindle inhibitors in glioblastoma depends on STAT3 and therapy induced senescence.iScience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Owing to their integral involvement in cell cycle regulation, the Polo-like kinase (Plk) family, particularly Plk1, has emerged as an attractive therapeutic target in oncology. In recent years, several Plk1 inhibitors have been developed, with some agents showing encouraging results in early-phase clinical trials. This review focuses on volasertib (BI 6727; an investigational agent), a potent and selective Plk inhibitor. Volasertib has shown promising activity in various cancer cell lines and xenograft models of human cancer. Trials performed to date suggest that volasertib has clinical efficacy in a range of malignancies, with the most promising results seen in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Encouragingly, recent phase II data have demonstrated that volasertib combined with low-dose cytarabine (LDAC) was associated with higher response rates and improved event-free survival than LDAC alone in patients with previously untreated AML. Based on these observations, and its presumably manageable safety profile, volasertib is currently in phase III development as a potential treatment for patients with AML who are ineligible for intensive remission induction therapy. Given that many patients with AML are of an older age and frail, this constitutes an area of major unmet need. In this review, we discuss the biologic rationale for Plk1 inhibitors in cancer, the clinical development of volasertib to date in solid tumors and AML, and the future identification of biomarkers that might predict response to volasertib and help determine the role of this agent in the clinic.
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