Description
AZ-628 is an irreversible Raf kinase inhibitor that exhibits anticancer chemotherapeutic activity in vitro and in vivo. AZ-628 strongly inhibits tumor cell growth in cells exhibiting mutant (V600E) B-Raf, a mutation commonly found in a variety of cancer subtypes; this compound also inhibits growth in several cell lines that were resistant to most other Raf inhibitors. AZ-628 exhibits similar inhibition of B-Raf and c-Raf in vitro but appears to be selective for B-Raf in vivo.