Irak-4? Yah I never heard of it either, but the IRAKs appear to be immunology targets for which Amgen is way out in front. They’ve got a nice paper in Structure, a Biorg. Med. Chem. Lett., and 2 PDB’s: 2NRU, 2NRY.
At first look I was mesmerized by the tyrosine gatekeeper but a second glance on looking over the recent CIP: US20070037803 shows something interesting.
they suggest as much in the BMCL. Read the rest of this entry »