PF-04217903 is a selective ATP-competitive c-Met inhibitor with IC50 of 4.8 nM, susceptible to oncogenic mutations (no activity to Y1230C mutant).

Being more selective than staurosporine or PF-02341066, PF-04217903 displays >1000-fold selectivity for c-Met over a panel of 208 kinases, although more susceptible to oncogenic mutations of c-Met that attenuate potency than PF-02341066. In addition to WT c-Met, PF-04217903 displays similar potency to inhibit the activity of c-Met-H1094R, c-Met-R988C, and c-Met-T1010I with IC50 of 3.1 nM, 6.4 nM, and 6.7 nM, respectively, but has no inhibitory activity against c-Met-Y1230C with IC50 of >10 μM.PF-04217903 in combination with sunitinib significantly inhibits endothelial cells, but not the tumor cells B16F1, Tib6, EL4, and LLC PF-04217903 significantly inhibits the clonogenic growth of LXFA 526L and LXFA 1647L with IC50 values of 16 nM, and 13 nM, respectively, yielding an additive effect when in combination with cetuximab.PF-04217903 potently inhibits c-Met-driven processes such as cell growth, motility, invasion, and morphology of a variety of tumor cells. PF-04217903 treatment (2 μM) increased cell death of GTL-16 cells, which involves the downregulation of phosphorylated 4E-BP1, ERK/MAPK associated proteins and PI3K/AKT pathway.