title: Pralatrexate - from bench to bedside.
abstract: Pralatrexate (PDX, 10-propargyl 10-deazaaminopterin) is an exciting new chemotherapeutic agent with promising activity in T-cell lymphomas and non-small cell lung cancer. It has been granted approval by the Food and Drug administration (FDA) for use in the treatment of relapsed and refractory peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCL). Pralatrexate belongs to a class of antineoplastic agents known as antifolates that also include methotrexate, pemetrexed and ralitrexed. Pralatrexate was rationally designed to have high affinity for the one carbon-reduced folate carrier (RFC-1) which leads to better cellular internalization of the drug and a greater antitumor effect than methotrexate. The following monograph is a story of the development of this drug in a systematic fashion from the bench to the bedside.
authors.affiliation: New York University Cancer Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA. jasmine.zain@nyumc.org
authors.forename: Jasmine M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Zain
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marchi
mesh_terms: D000630:Aminopterin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D015195:Drug Design; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D005493:Folic Acid Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: C418863:10-propargyl-10-deazaaminopterin; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D005493:Folic Acid Antagonists; D000630:Aminopterin