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ArticleACS medicinal chemistry letters2025

Discovery of Rogocekib (CTX-712): A Potent and Selective CLK Inhibitor for Cancer Treatment.

Youichi Kawakita, Takuto Kojima, Noriyuki Nii, Yoshiteru Ito, Nobuki Sakauchi, Hiroshi Banno, Xin Liu, Koji Ono, Keisuke Imamura, Shinichi Imamura and 10 more

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Article in ACS medicinal chemistry letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Youichi KawakitaResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Takuto KojimaResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Noriyuki NiiResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Yoshiteru ItoResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Nobuki SakauchiResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Hiroshi BannoResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Xin LiuResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Koji OnoResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Keisuke ImamuraResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Shinichi ImamuraResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Kenichi IwaiResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Yukiko YamamotoResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Misa IwataniResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Noriko UchiyamaResearch, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Midori SugiyamaResearch, Chordia Therapeutics Inc., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Akio MizutaniResearch, Chordia Therapeutics Inc., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Yoshihiko SatohResearch, Chordia Therapeutics Inc., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Yasuyoshi ArikawaResearch, Chordia Therapeutics Inc., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Daisuke MorishitaResearch, Chordia Therapeutics Inc., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.
Kenichiro ShimokawaResearch, Chordia Therapeutics Inc., 26-1, Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0012, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1982-0407

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cdc2-like kinase (CLK) inhibitors represent an innovative class of small molecules designed to modulate RNA splicing patterns, offering a novel avenue for therapeutic intervention in diseases where dysregulated splicing contributes to pathogenesis, particularly in oncology. Here, we describe the discovery of Rogocekib (CTX-712), a promising therapeutic candidate as a CLK inhibitor, which is currently in clinical development. Our medicinal chemistry research involved structure-based drug design-guided scaffold hopping from an initial chemical scaffold and subsequent chemical optimization to generate a novel 1

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CLK inhibitorCTX-712mRNA Splicing modulatorRogocekibScaffold hopping

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PMID41089490
PMCPMC12516396

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