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ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2025

RTx-303, an Orally Bioavailable Polθ Polymerase Inhibitor That Potentiates PARP Inhibitors in BRCA Mutant Tumors.

Gurushankar Chandramouly, William Fried, John Gordon, Douglas Ralph, Channita Keuk, Sangeeta Kumari, Mercy Ramanjulu, William Auerbacher, Leonid Minakhin, Taylor Tredinnick and 12 more

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Article in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  2. The Pharmacologic Profile of ART6043, a First-in-Class Clinical DNA Polymerase Theta Polymerase Domain Inhibitor Potentiating PARP Inhibitor Efficacy.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Gurushankar ChandramoulyDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4258-9859
William FriedMolecular and Computational Biology, USC Dornsife Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
John GordonFels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, United States.
Douglas RalphDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States.
Channita KeukFels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, United States.
Sangeeta KumariTemple University, School of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, United States.
Mercy RamanjuluRecombination Therapeutics, Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center, Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18902, United States.
William AuerbacherDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States.
Leonid MinakhinDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States.
Taylor TredinnickDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States.
Bernadette TiberiDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States.
George MortonTemple University, School of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, United States.
Robert BetschNuclear Dynamics and Cancer Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111, United States.
Kathy Q CaiNuclear Dynamics and Cancer Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111, United States.
Umeshkumar M VekariyaFels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, United States.
Mrityunjay TyagiDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States.
Tomasz SkorskiNuclear Dynamics and Cancer Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111, United States.
Sergey KarakashevFels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, United States.
Neil JohnsonNuclear Dynamics and Cancer Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111, United States.
Wayne E ChildersRecombination Therapeutics, Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center, Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18902, United States.
Xiaojiang S ChenMolecular and Computational Biology, USC Dornsife Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
Richard T PomerantzDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States.

Funding

WORD PROCESSING CENTER--COREP30CA006927 · NCI · RESEARCH INST OF FOX CHASE CAN CTR · PI Eric Andrew Ross · 1985 to 2026
$138.8M
User Training and OutreachP30GM124169 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI Gregory L Hura · 2017 to 2026
$28.6M
Targeting DNA repair to eradicate TKi-refractory/resistant CML and Ph+ALLR01CA186238 · NCI · TEMPLE UNIV OF THE COMMONWEALTH · PI SKORSKI, TOMASZ · 2014 to 2024
$4.5M
Compensatory Mechanisms that Promote Homologous Recombination in BRCA1 Mutant CancersR01CA214799 · NCI · RESEARCH INST OF FOX CHASE CAN CTR · PI Neil Johnson · 2017 to 2026
$4.3M
Structural Basis of APOBEC Functions and Interactions with HIV-VifR01AI150524 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI XIAOJIANG S CHEN · 2019 to 2026
$3.8M
Divergent Functions of ERK Substrate Binding Domains in Pathogenesis of Myeloproliferative NeoplasmsR01CA283396 · NCI · RESEARCH INST OF FOX CHASE CAN CTR · PI TOMASZ SKORSKI, DAVID L. WIEST · 2023 to 2026
$2.8M
PolQ as a novel therapeutic target in AMLR01CA244179 · NCI · TEMPLE UNIV OF THE COMMONWEALTH · PI POMERANTZ, RICHARD T, SKORSKI, TOMASZ · 2020 to 2024
$2.7M
Assessing DNA Polymerase Theta as a Therapeutic Target in BRCA1 Mutant CancerR01CA262466 · NCI · RESEARCH INST OF FOX CHASE CAN CTR · PI Neil Johnson · 2022 to 2026
$2.3M
Development of Best-in-Class Pol-Theta InhibitorsR01CA283323 · NCI · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI Wayne E Childers, Richard T Pomerantz · 2024 to 2026
$2.1M
Targeting HSP70 in CARM1-expressing epithelial ovarian cancerR00CA241395 · NCI · TEMPLE UNIV OF THE COMMONWEALTH · PI KARAKASHEV, SERGEY · 2022 to 2024
$747k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006927NCI NIH HHS R00 CA241395NCI NIH HHS R01 CA186238NCI NIH HHS R01 CA214799NCI NIH HHS R01 CA244179NCI NIH HHS R01 CA262466NCI NIH HHS R01 CA283323NCI NIH HHS R01 CA283396NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI150524NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM124169
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA polymerase θ (Polθ) is a polymerase-helicase fusion protein that is synthetically lethal with homologous recombination (HR) factors, such as BRCA1/2, and confers resistance to PARP inhibitors (PARPi) and other genotoxic cancer therapies. Previously developed Polθ polymerase (Polθ-pol) inhibitors (Polθi) exhibited limited pharmacological activity and metabolic stability, warranting the development of a Polθi with improved drug-like properties. Here, we developed RTx-303, a selective allosteric small-molecule Polθ-pol inhibitor that exhibits 5.1 nM IC

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Antineoplastic AgentsBRCA1 ProteinBRCA2 ProteinDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseEnzyme InhibitorsPoly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase InhibitorsAdministration, OralAnimalsBiological AvailabilityCell Line, TumorCrystallography, X-RayDNA Polymerase thetaFemaleHumansMiceMutationAntineoplastic AgentsBRCA1 ProteinBRCA1 protein, humanBRCA2 ProteinBRCA2 protein, humanDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseDNA Polymerase thetaEnzyme InhibitorsPoly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase Inhibitors

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PMID41124685
PMCPMC12621202

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