Breaking through poor selectivity in previous generation of protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitors, MS-533 has high selectivity and is significantly superior to previous generation ones in terms of safety, pharmacokinetic characteristics, and therapeutic efficacy, which is the only inhibitor of B cells receptor signaling pathway (BCR) that can target multiple drug-resistant variants on BTK and PLCG2.
The target of MS-553 is PKCβ, located in downstream of BTK and PLCG2, which is a key kinase that controls this pathway.
Effective in patients who are resistant to BTK and against resistant mutations in both BTK and PLCG2 resulting from non-reversible (e.g. ibrutinib) and reversible BTK inhibitors (e.g. pirtobrutinib).