Astellas Pharma Gmbh

Curegene K.k.

Takatoshi Soga

Takashi Furutani

Hiroyuki Mano

Nobuaki Shindo

Sadao Kuromitsu

Jun Takasaki

Masazumi Kamohara

Mitsuyuki Matsumoto

Tetsu Saito

Takahide Ohishi

Shigeru Yoshida

Kenji Negoro

Itsuro Shimada

Akio Kamikawa

Yasuhiro Yonetoku

Norio Asai

Kazuhiko Iikubo

Yutaka Kondoh

Kei Ohnuki

Toshio Kurosaki

Fumiyoshi Iwasaki

Takahiro Matsuya

Kazuo Kurosawa

The present inventors found that a fusion gene present in some cancer patients is an oncogene. The present invention relates to a polypeptide as a novel fusion protein, a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide, a vector comprising the polynucleotide, a transformed cell comprising the vector, a method for detecting the fusion protein or polynucleotide, a method for screening a therapeutic agent for cancer, and a method for treating cancer that is shown to be positive for the fusion gene. Further, the present invention relates kit, primer set, and probe useful in the detection of cancer that is shown to be positive for the fusion gene.

EML4-ALK fusion gene

The present invention provides a compound which is useful as an inhibitor against the kinase activity of EML4-ALK fusion proteins and mutant EGFR proteins. As a result of extensive and intensive studies on compounds having an inhibitory effect against the kinase activity of EML4-ALK fusion proteins and mutant EGFR proteins, the inventors of the present invention have found that the di(arylamino)aryl compound of the present invention has inhibitory activity against the kinase activity of EML4-ALK fusion proteins and mutant EGFR proteins. This finding led to the completion of the present invention. The compound of the present invention can be used as a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and/or treating cancer, lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, EML4-ALK fusion polynucleotide-positive and/or mutant EGFR polynucleotide-positive cancer, EML4-ALK fusion polynucleotide-positive and/or mutant EGFR polynucleotide-positive lung cancer, or EML4-ALK fusion polynucleotide-positive and/or mutant EGFR polynucleotide-positive non-small cell lung cancer, etc.

Di(arylamino)aryl compounds

A compound which can be used as a pharmaceutical, particularly a insulin secretion promoter or a agent for preventing/treating disease in which GPR40 is concerned such as diabetes or the like, is provided. It was found that an oxadiazolidinedione compound which is characterized by the possession of a benzyl or the like substituent binding to the cyclic group via a linker at the 2-position of the oxadiazolidinedione ring, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, has excellent GPR40 agonist action. In addition, since the oxadiazolidinedione compound of the present invention showed excellent insulin secretion promoting action and blood glucose level-lowering action, it is useful as an insulin secretion promoter or an agent for preventing/treating diabetes.

Oxadiazolidinedione compound

The invention relates to a convenient screening tool for identifying an agent for treating diabetes. The screening tool is a G protein-coupled receptor, a variant of the G protein-coupled receptor, or a homolog of the G protein-coupled receptor, which promotes insulin secretion under a high glucose concentration by activation. The invention also relates to cells transformed with an expression vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding and expressing the screening tool. The invention provides a convenient screening method for identifying an agent for treating diabetes, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the agent, and a process for manufacturing the pharmaceutical composition.

Method for screening agents for the treatment of diabetes

The present inventors found that a fusion gene present in some cancer patients is an oncogene. The present invention relates to a polypeptide as a novel fusion protein, a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide, a vector comprising the polynucleotide, a transformed cell comprising the vector, and a therapeutic agent for cancer.

A screening tool for an antiplatelet agent wherein the tool is a human ADP receptor P2Tprotein, a variation functionally equivalent thereto, or a homologous protein thereof, and a screening tool for an antiplatelet agent wherein the tool is a transformant which is transformed with an expression vector comprising a DNA encoding the protein and is expressing the polypeptide are disclosed. Further, a method for detecting an ADP receptor P2Tligand, antagonist, or agonist by using the screening tool for an antiplatelet agent, and a method for screening an antiplatelet agent by the detecting method are disclosed.

Method of screening antiplatelet agents

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Tokyo, Japan

Takatoshi Soga