MEK1 mutations confer resistance to MEK and B-RAF inhibition

CM Emery, KG Vijayendran… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
… P124L allele in resistance to MEK inhibition, we examined the effects of MEK inhibition on ex
vivo … In this study, we used a systematic approach that combined random mutagenesis and …

[HTML][HTML] AurkA inhibitors enhance the effects of B-RAF and MEK inhibitors in melanoma treatment

E Caputo, R Miceli, ML Motti, R Taté… - Journal of translational …, 2014 - Springer
combined B-RAF/AurkA inhibition for B-RAF mutated melanomas and MEK/AurkA inhibitor
combination for patients without B-RAFRAF, MEK and AurkA inhibitor triple drug combination

[HTML][HTML] CRAF mutations in lung cancer can be oncogenic and predict sensitivity to combined type II RAF and MEK inhibition

A Noeparast, P Giron, A Noor, R Bahadur Shahi… - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
… type II RAF inhibitors and a MEK inhibitor led to a stronger ERK pathway inhibition and growth
… with CRAF oncogene dependency to the combination of type II RAF and MEK inhibition. …

RAF dimer inhibition enhances the antitumor activity of MEK inhibitors in K‐RAS mutant tumors

X Yuan, Z Tang, R Du, Z Yao, SH Cheung… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… We observed enhanced antitumor efficacy for RAF dimer and MEK inhibitor combination, …
reports suggesting RAF dimer or pan-RAF inhibitor in combination with MEK inhibitor may be a …

Rational combination therapy with PARP and MEK inhibitors capitalizes on therapeutic liabilities in RAS mutant cancers

C Sun, Y Fang, J Yin, J Chen, Z Ju, D Zhang… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
… Thus, the ability of mutant RAS to suppress FOXO3a and its reversal by MEK inhibitors … and
MEK inhibitors in RAS mutant tumors. The rational combination of PARP and MEK inhibitors

[HTML][HTML] Acquired resistance to BRAF inhibition can confer cross-resistance to combined BRAF/MEK inhibition

K Gowrishankar, S Snoyman, GM Pupo… - Journal of investigative …, 2012 - Elsevier
… targeting of BRAF and its downstream target MAPK/ERK kinase (MEK) may … of combination
BRAF and MEK inhibition, we generated melanoma cell clones resistant to the BRAF inhibitor

Combined BRAF and MEK Inhibition With Dabrafenib and Trametinib in BRAF V600–Mutant Colorectal Cancer

RB Corcoran, CE Atreya, GS Falchook… - Journal of clinical …, 2015 - ascopubs.org
… Our study suggests that dual MAPK pathway blockade with the BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib
and the MEK inhibitor trametinib can lead to meaningful clinical benefit in a subset of patients …

The clinical development of MEK inhibitors

Y Zhao, AA Adjei - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2014 - nature.com
… of each pathway individually, a recent study combined PD0325901 with a dual PI3K and
mTOR inhibitor, PF-04691502, in a multiarm phase I study; 71 however, toxic effects precluded …

Exploiting allosteric properties of RAF and MEK inhibitors to target therapy-resistant tumors driven by oncogenic BRAF signaling

C Adamopoulos, TA Ahmed, MR Tucker, PMU Ung… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
… A rationally designed combination of RAF and MEK inhibitors based on their conformation
selectivity achieved increased efficacy and a high therapeutic index when used to target …

Therapeutic potential of MEK inhibition in acute myelogenous leukemia: rationale for “vertical” and “lateral” combination strategies

MR Ricciardi, MC Scerpa, P Bergamo… - Journal of molecular …, 2012 - Springer
RAF activation in response to MEK inhibition [27] … combined MEK and RAF inhibition provide
unequivocal evidence of a striking pro-apoptotic synergism of such a “vertical” combination