Lixte announces online publication of new pre-clinical data in BioXriv

LIXTE Biotechnology (LIXT) announced online publication of new pre-clinical data in BioXriv and International Journal of Pharmaceutics demonstrating how the Company’s lead clinical compound, LB-100, is converted into its active form, endothall, a protein phosphatase inhibitor that has been found to be effective in cancer treatment in combination with immunotherapy. As published in BioXriv, scientists at the Netherlands Cancer Institute have discovered an enzyme that mediates the conversion of LB-100 into the active metabolite endothall. Accordingly, this protein represents a potential biomarker to identify patients who are most likely to respond to LB-100. The biomarker discovery study was performed in the laboratories of Professor Rene Bernards, group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and LIXTE board member.