Plitidepsin to treat multiple myeloma

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While remaining relatively rare, multiple myeloma (MM) accounts for approximately 10% of all hematological malignancies, being an insidious disease with an overall 5-year survival rate of 52%. In addition to other associated complications, myeloma bone disease further aggravates MM patients, the majority of whom suffer from lytic lesions, leading to pain, fractures, mobility issues and neurological deficits. Patients not responding or becoming resistant to prior therapies have now a novel therapeutic tool with an unprecedent mode of action, differing from those currently in use. The anticancer effects of the marine-derived antitumor agent plitidepsin primarily rely on the interaction with elongation factor 1-α 2 (eEF1A2), known to be overexpressed in breast cancer and MM cells, targeting the noncanonical role of the protein and leading to a proapoptotic response. Following the drug's approval from Australian regulatory authorities, eligible patients will have access to a new first-in-class drug to treat MM, expanding the current anti-MM portfolio. Plitidepsin (Aplidin; PharmaMar) was approved in combination with the corticosteroid agent dexamethasone, to treat MM patients who failed or became resistant to other therapies, covering the third- and fourth-line treatment setting.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:56

Enthalten in:

Drugs of today (Barcelona, Spain : 1998) - 56(2020), 5 vom: 16. Mai, Seite 337-347

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gomes, N G M [VerfasserIn]
Valentão, P [VerfasserIn]
Andrade, P B [VerfasserIn]
Pereira, R B [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anticancer drugs
Antineoplastic Agents
Aplidium albicans
Blood cancers
Depsipeptides
Didemnins
EEF1A2 protein, human
Elongation factor 1-α 2 (eEF1A2)
Hematologic malignancies
Journal Article
Marine drugs
Multiple myeloma
Peptide Elongation Factor 1
Peptides, Cyclic
Plitidepsin
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Date Completed 19.08.2020

Date Revised 04.12.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1358/dot.2020.56.5.3135886

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM309897327