This is due to the discovery that widely used ERK5 ATP-competitive classical inhibitors (such as XMD8-92 and ERK5-IN-1) are unspecific, since they bind the acetyl-lysine domain of Bromodomain-Containing Protein-4 BRD4, a ubiquitous regulator of transcription and mediator of cancer cell proliferation. This evidence concerns the gene MAPK7 and cancer.