RAF suppression synergizes with MEK inhibition in KRAS mutant cancer cells

S Lamba, M Russo, C Sun, L Lazzari, C Cancelliere… - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
KRAS is the most frequently mutated oncogene in human cancer, yet no therapies are
available to treat KRAS mutant cancers. We used two independent reverse genetic …

Pharmacological induction of RAS-GTP confers RAF inhibitor sensitivity in KRAS mutant tumors

I Yen, F Shanahan, M Merchant, C Orr, T Hunsaker… - Cancer Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Targeting KRAS mutant tumors through inhibition of individual downstream pathways has
had limited clinical success. Here we report that RAF inhibitors exhibit little efficacy in KRAS …

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
The mutation of K‐RAS represents one of the most frequent genetic alterations in cancer.
Targeting of downstream effectors of RAS, including of MEK and ERK, has limited clinical …

Combined MEK and ERK inhibition overcomes therapy-mediated pathway reactivation in RAS mutant tumors

M Merchant, J Moffat, G Schaefer, J Chan, X Wang… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway dysregulation is implicated in> 30% of all
cancers, rationalizing the development of RAF, MEK and ERK inhibitors. While BRAF and …

Targeting KRAS mutant cancers by preventing signaling transduction in the MAPK pathway

C Korzeniecki, R Priefer - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
KRAS genes are the most commonly mutated oncogenes in cancer. Unfortunately, effective
therapeutic strategies for targeting KRAS mutant cancers have proven to be difficult to …

Intrinsic resistance to MEK inhibition in KRAS mutant lung and colon cancer through transcriptional induction of ERBB3

C Sun, S Hobor, A Bertotti, D Zecchin, S Huang… - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
There are no effective therapies for the∼ 30% of human malignancies with mutant RAS
oncogenes. Using a kinome-centered synthetic lethality screen, we find that suppression of …

Therapeutics targeting mutant KRAS

KZ Thein, AB Biter, DS Hong - Annual review of medicine, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Aberrations in rat sarcoma (RAS) viral oncogene are the most prevalent and best-known
genetic alterations identified in human cancers. Indeed, RAS drives tumorigenesis as one of …

Targeting the MAPK pathway in KRAS-driven tumors

M Drosten, M Barbacid - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
KRAS mutations occur in a quarter of all of human cancers, yet no selective drug has been
approved to treat these tumors. Despite the recent development of drugs that block KRAS …

Stamping out RAF and MEK1/2 to inhibit the ERK1/2 pathway: an emerging threat to anticancer therapy

R Mandal, S Becker, K Strebhardt - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The RAS-RAF-MEK1/2-ERK1/2 pathway is a key signal transduction pathway in the
cells. Critically, it remains constitutively active in approximately 30% of human cancers …

ERK inhibition overcomes acquired resistance to MEK inhibitors

G Hatzivassiliou, B Liu, C O'Brien, JM Spoerke… - Molecular cancer …, 2012 - AACR
Abstract The RAS/RAF/MEK pathway is activated in more than 30% of human cancers, most
commonly via mutation in the K-ras oncogene and also via mutations in BRAF. Several …