TNG908 is a brain-penetrant, MTA-cooperative PRMT5 inhibitor developed for the treatment of MTAP-deleted cancers

  • Transl Oncol. 2025 Feb:52:102264. doi: 10.1016/j.tranon.2024.102264.
Kimberly J Briggs  1 Kevin M Cottrell  2 Matthew R Tonini  2 Alice Tsai  2 Minjie Zhang  2 Douglas A Whittington  2 Wenhai Zhang  2 Steven A Lombardo  2 Satoshi Yoda  2 Erik W Wilker  2 Samuel R Meier  2 Yi Yu  2 Teng Teng  2 Alan Huang  2 John P Maxwell  2
Affiliations
  • 1. Tango Therapeutics, Tango Therapeutics, 201 Brookline Avenue, Boston, 02215, MA, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • 2. Tango Therapeutics, Tango Therapeutics, 201 Brookline Avenue, Boston, 02215, MA, United States.
Abstract

TNG908 is a clinical stage PRMT5 Inhibitor with an MTA-cooperative binding mechanism designed to leverage the synthetic lethal interaction between PRMT5 inhibition and MTAP deletion. MTAP deletion occurs in 10-15 % of all human Cancer representing multiple histologies. MTA is a negative regulator of PRMT5 that accumulates as a result of MTAP deletion. In this study, we demonstrate that TNG908 selectively binds the PRMT5·MTA complex driving selective inhibition of PRMT5 in MTAP-null cancers, a mechanism that creates a large therapeutic index relative to first generation PRMT5 inhibitors that have alternative binding mechanisms that are not tumor-selective. Strong preclinical activity in multiple MTAP-deleted xenograft models, as well as demonstrated brain penetrance in preclinical models, support the potential for histology-agnostic clinical development of TNG908 in MTAP-deleted solid tumors, including CNS malignancies. TNG908 is being tested clinically in patients with MTAP-deleted tumors, including glioblastoma, in a Phase I/II clinical trial (NCT05275478).

Keywords
MTA-cooperative; MTAP; PRMT5; collateral lethality; synthetic lethality.
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