Independent drug action in combination therapy: implications for precision oncology

D Plana, AC Palmer, PK Sorger - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Combination therapies are superior to monotherapy for many cancers. This advantage was
historically ascribed to the ability of combinations to address tumor heterogeneity, but …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting MAPK signaling in cancer: mechanisms of drug resistance and sensitivity

S Lee, J Rauch, W Kolch - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways represent ubiquitous signal transduction
pathways that regulate all aspects of life and are frequently altered in disease. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer nanotechnology: current status and perspectives

JA Kemp, YJ Kwon - Nano convergence, 2021 - Springer
Modern medicine has been waging a war on cancer for nearly a century with no tangible
end in sight. Cancer treatments have significantly progressed, but the need to increase …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted protein degradation: A promise for undruggable proteins

KTG Samarasinghe, CM Crews - Cell chemical biology, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Protein homeostasis, or" proteostasis," is indispensable for a balanced, healthy
environment within the cell. However, when natural proteostasis mechanisms are …

Integration of multiomics data with graph convolutional networks to identify new cancer genes and their associated molecular mechanisms

R Schulte-Sasse, S Budach, D Hnisz… - Nature Machine …, 2021 - nature.com
The increase in available high-throughput molecular data creates computational challenges
for the identification of cancer genes. Genetic as well as non-genetic causes contribute to …

Cancer immunotherapy: Challenges and limitations

S Taefehshokr, A Parhizkar, S Hayati… - … -Research and Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
Although cancer immunotherapy has taken center stage in mainstream oncology inducing
complete and long-lasting tumor regression, only a subset of patients receiving treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of Polycomb group protein function in cancer

V Parreno, AM Martinez, G Cavalli - Cell research, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer arises from a multitude of disorders resulting in loss of differentiation and a stem cell-
like phenotype characterized by uncontrolled growth. Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins are …

Tracking cancer evolution through the disease course

C Bailey, JRM Black, JL Reading, K Litchfield… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
During cancer evolution, constituent tumor cells compete under dynamic selection
pressures. Phenotypic variation can be observed as intratumor heterogeneity, which is …

Acquired resistance to KRAS G12C small-molecule inhibitors via genetic/nongenetic mechanisms in lung cancer

A Mohanty, A Nam, S Srivastava, J Jones… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Inherent or acquired resistance to sotorasib poses a substantialt challenge for NSCLC
treatment. Here, we demonstrate that acquired resistance to sotorasib in isogenic cells …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic and non-genetic mechanisms underlying cancer evolution

Y Shlyakhtina, KL Moran, MM Portal - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Our manuscript summarizes the up-to-date data on the complex and
dynamic nature of adaptation mechanisms and evolutionary processes taking place during …