Further, our comprehensive review also provides valuable insights for developing novel antitumor drugs that specifically target PIM kinases in the future. In conclusion, we provide insights into the benefits of degrading PIM kinases as opposed to blocking their catalytic activity to address the oncogenic potential of PIM kinases.

Furthermore, through computational biology approaches, the drug AZD1208 was identified as a potential treatment targeting the PPARG protein for pancreatic cancer. This discovery opens new avenues for exploring targets and screening drugs for pancreatic cancer.

The correlation between PIM and ABCC1 gene expression suggests PIM kinases may contribute to neuroblastoma chemotherapeutic resistance. PIM kinase inhibition increased intracellular doxorubicin accumulation. Combination treatment with AZD1208 and doxorubicin decreased neuroblastoma cell viability in a synergistic fashion. These findings support further investigations of PIM kinase inhibition in neuroblastoma.

In conclusion, our preliminary data suggest a deregulation of the PIM pathway in inflammatory arthritides. In-depth studies on the role of PIM kinases in this field are warranted.

Our data propose S100A8/A9 as a potential predictive and pharmacodynamic biomarker in clinical trials evaluating combination therapy targeting PIM and immune checkpoints in TNBC. This work encourages the development of S100A8/A9-based liquid biopsy tests for treatment guidance.

Cytotoxicity, apoptosis and protein expression and turnover were measured in FLT3-ITD-expressing cell lines and AML patient blasts treated with the FLT3 inhibitor gilteritinib and/or the Pim inhibitors AZD1208 or TP-3654. The data are consistent with c-Myc T58 and Mcl-1 S159 phosphorylation by activated GSK-3β as the mechanism of action of gilteritinib and Pim inhibitor combination treatment, further supporting GSK-3β activation as a therapeutic strategy in FLT3-ITD AML.  .

Nonetheless, when multiplexed therapies were tested in a murine model of HER-2 breast cancer, combinations of HER-2 peptide-pulsed DCs and AZD1208, as well as recombinant IFN-γ plus AZD1208 significantly suppressed tumor outgrowth compared with single-treatment and control groups. These studies suggest that PIM antagonism may combine productively with certain immunotherapies to improve responsiveness.

PIM kinase inhibition was attained using PIM3 siRNA and the pan-PIM inhibitor, AZD1208. When assessing the combined effects of pharmacologic PIM kinase inhibition with cisplatin on HLM_2 cells, we found the agents to be synergistic, potentially through inhibition of the ATM pathway. These findings support further exploration of PIM kinase inhibition as a therapeutic strategy for metastatic hepatoblastoma.

The current focus encompasses the structural and biological characterization of PIM, ongoing research progress on small-molecule inhibitors undergoing clinical trials, and evaluation analysis of persisting challenges in this field. Additionally, the design and discovery of small-molecule inhibitors targeting PIM in recent years have been explored, with a particular emphasis on medicinal chemistry, aiming to provide valuable insights for the future development of PIM inhibitors.

Our findings suggest that Pim-3 promotes ESCC progression. Corynoline inhibits ESCC progression through targeting Pim-3.

These data indicate a strong association of PIM expression with increased MAPK activation score, T cell inflamed score, inflammatory, PSA, AR, MHC class I and MHC class II gene expression, and differential immune cell infiltration. However, this did not significantly translate to a worse clinical presentation of mHSPC. A better understanding of these differences with additional research may provide a rationale for tailored therapeutic approaches for PIM-expressing mHSPC.

More recently, several pharmacological small-molecule inhibitors have been preclinically and clinically evaluated and showed their therapeutic potential; however, none of them has been approved for clinical application so far. Thus, in this perspective, we focus on summarizing the oncogenic roles of PIM kinases, key signaling network, and pharmacological small-molecule inhibitors, which will provide a new clue on discovering more candidate antitumor drugs targeting PIM kinases in the future.

Further, PIMs modulate Th cell signaling, potentially via STAT1 and STAT3. Overall, our study highlights the inhibitory role of PIMs in human Th17 cell differentiation, thereby suggesting their association with autoimmune phenotypes.

In this study, we evaluate the effect of the novel multikinase PIM/PI3K/mTOR inhibitor, AUM302, and commercially available PIM inhibitor, TP-3654. Significantly, AUM302 had a strong impact on the viability of gemcitabine-resistant PDAC cells. Taken together, these results demonstrate that AUM302 exhibits antitumor activity in human PDAC cells and thus has the potential to be an effective drug for PDAC therapy.

INCB053914 was generally well tolerated as monotherapy and in combinations; TEAEs were most commonly ALT/AST-elevated. Limited responses were observed with combinations. Future studies are needed to identify rational, effective combination strategies.

In this work, a structurally novel compound based on N-pyridinyl amide was designed by fragment hybridization and then our SAR exploration revealed that the positional isomerization would lead to a decrease in activity, while increase of the freedom of solvent fragment by breaking the intramolecular hydrogen bond unprecedentedly leads to an increase in activity. These studies finally resulted in the screening out of a potent PIM inhibitor FD1024 (compound 24) which exerts strong antiproliferative activity against the tested AML cell lines and achieves profound antitumor efficacy in mice at well-tolerated dose schedules.

These drugs were AZD-1208, a pan-PIM kinase inhibitor; BEZ235/Dactolisib, a pan-PI3K-mTOR dual inhibitor, a combination of both AZD-1208 and BEZ235, and AUM-302 – a preclinical PIM, PI3K, mTOR triple inhibitor. However, AZD-1208 activated PI3K cascade. MKi67 and PIM genes activity switched between different cell types in response to the different treatments, which may be compensatory.ConclusionWe conclude that pre-clinical drug development can and should be carried out not just on cancer cells but on complex models, including epithelium, stroma, and benign areas, and that when such drug screening is carried out, advanced endpoint analyses such as spatial transcriptomics are warranted, in order to properly assess both the promise and the pitfalls of drug candidates in clinically relevant settings.

Next as a very promising drug, the effectiveness of pim kinase inhibitors as single agents or in combination with other drugs in the treatment of MM was also summarized. Our analysis will guide the clinical use of pim kinase inhibitors for managing tumor load and bone disease in MM patients.

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Inhibition of PIM kinases is a potential novel strategy for overcoming BETi persistence in myeloid neoplasms. Our data supports further clinical investigation of this combination.

P1/2, N=73, Completed, Menarini Group | Active, not recruiting --> Completed | Trial completion date: Sep 2022 --> May 2023 | Trial primary completion date: Sep 2022 --> May 2023

Our results indicated that OCT was capable and reliable to monitor the therapeutic effect of inhibitors to ovarian MCTs and it can be used for the rapid characterization of novel therapeutics for ovarian cancers in the future.

Inhibition of PIM kinases differentiated neuroblastoma cancer cells toward a neuronal phenotype. Differentiation is a key component of preventing neuroblastoma relapse or recurrence and PIM kinase inhibition provides a potential new therapeutic strategy for this disease.

Kaempferol and Quercetin Dihydrate inhibit proliferation and induce apoptosis of myeloid neoplasms cells. PIM2 is an important target for the development and prognosis of acute myeloid leukemia and MDS. Kaempferol and Quercetin Dihydrate inhibit PIM2 kinase in myeloid neoplasms cells and subsequently participate in NF-κB expression, proliferation and regulation of myeloid neoplasms.

Our data suggest a strong association between PIM expression and increased MAPK activation score, T cell inflamed score, inflammatory, MHC class I and MHC class II gene expression, and differential immune cell infiltration. A better understanding of these differences will provide a rationale for tailored therapeutic approaches for PIM-expressing PC.

PIM kinase family may be a potential therapeutic target for DLBCL patients.

AZD1208 (a PIM1 inhibitor) aggravated renal IRI, while PIM1 overexpression ameliorated renal IRI...Moreover, results demonstrated that ASK1 was a downstream target of PIM1 by administering Selonsertib (an inhibitor of ASK1 activity), and inhibiting ASK1 alleviated cell death after HR in PIM1 knockdown cells by reducing JNK/P38 activation. In conclusion, this study elucidated the protective effect of PIM1 on renal IRI, and the underlying mechanism may be related to ASK1-JNK/P38 signaling pathway. Taken together, PIM1 may be a potential therapeutic target for renal IRI.

Pharmacokinetics of a single oral dose demonstrated a peak concentration at 0.5 hours after gavage. In summary, further development of this compound class has the potential to inhibit important signaling pathways and impact cancer treatment.

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Moreover, in silico ADME profile prediction indicated that all compounds are orally bioavailable and most of them can penetrate the blood-brain barrier. This study presents novel nicotinonitrile derivatives as auspicious hits for further optimization as antiproliferative agents against liver cancer cells and promising pan Pim kinase inhibitors at submicromolar concentrations.

CXCR4 blockade with AMD3100 decreased the metastatic phenotype of PIM3 overexpressing cells, indicating that CXCR4 contributed to PIM3's promotion of hepatoblastoma metastasis. Clinically, PIM3 expression correlated positively with CXCR4 expression in primary hepatoblastoma tissues. In conclusion, we have shown PIM3 kinase promotes the metastatic phenotype of hepatoblastoma cells through upregulation of CXCR4 cell surface expression and these findings suggest that targeting PIM3 kinase may provide a novel therapeutic strategy for metastatic hepatoblastoma.

Our data suggest that PIMs support pro-tumoral and immunosuppressive phenotype of cHL-TAMs. Since PIM activity is required for RS cell survival and immune escape, these kinases are rational targets for therapy in cHL, suggesting the use of PIM inhibitors, such as MEN1703, as a possible therapeutic approach .