“…Given the potent and previously unrecognized splicing kinase inhibitory activity of these drugs against this kinase panel, we also decided to investigate the activity of other known splicing kinase inhibitory drugs and tool compounds that were not included in the initial TESLR screen. To this end we performed a dose-response screen with Mirk-IN-1 (a known DYRK1A inhibitor), (Anderson, Chen et al 2013) Sphinx31 (a selective SRPK1 inhibitor) (Batson, Toop et al 2017) dinaciclib (a FDA designated orphan drug and a potent CDK 1, 2, 5, and 9 inhibitor), (Paruch, Dwyer et al 2010) SRPIN340 (SRPK 1 and 2 inhibitor), (Karakama, Sakamoto et al 2010) SNS-032 (CDK 2,7 and 9 inhibitor), (Ma and Cress 2007) flavopiridol (Alvocidib, a FDA designated orphan drug and a potent pan-CDK inhibitor), (Senderowicz 1999) palbociclib (a non-selective CDK/multi-kinase inhibitor that is a FDA designated orphan drug), (Klaeger, Heinzlmeir et al 2017) and silmitasertib (a CK2 inhibitor in Phase II). (Kim, Choi et al 2014) Of these compounds we found that only Mirk-IN-1, palbociclib and silmitasertib were active (IC50s in the range of 10-300 µM) in the TESLR assay, while the other splicing kinase inhibitors showed IC50s >> 10 µM in inducing triple exon skipping (see SI; Figure S4).…”