Small molecules, big impact: 20 years of targeted therapy in oncology

PL Bedard, DM Hyman, MS Davids, LL Siu - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
The identification of molecular targets and the growing knowledge of their cellular functions
have led to the development of small molecule inhibitors as a major therapeutic class for …

Lineage plasticity in cancer: a shared pathway of therapeutic resistance

Á Quintanal-Villalonga, JM Chan, HA Yu… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Lineage plasticity, the ability of cells to transition from one committed developmental
pathway to another, has been proposed as a source of intratumoural heterogeneity and of …

Rapid non-uniform adaptation to conformation-specific KRAS (G12C) inhibition

JY Xue, Y Zhao, J Aronowitz, TT Mai, A Vides, B Qeriqi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
KRAS GTPases are activated in one-third of cancers, and KRAS (G12C) is one of the most
common activating alterations in lung adenocarcinoma,. KRAS (G12C) inhibitors, are in …

Clinical and biological features of neuroendocrine prostate cancer

Y Yamada, H Beltran - Current oncology reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is an aggressive
histologic subtype of prostate cancer that most commonly arises in later stages of prostate …

Mechanisms of sensitivity and resistance to CDK4/6 inhibition

M Álvarez-Fernández, M Malumbres - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Inhibiting the cell-cycle kinases CDK4 and CDK6 results in significant therapeutic effect in
patients with advanced hormone-positive breast cancer. The efficacy of this strategy is …

Binary pan-cancer classes with distinct vulnerabilities defined by pro-or anti-cancer YAP/TEAD activity

JD Pearson, K Huang, M Pacal, SR McCurdy, S Lu… - Cancer Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer heterogeneity impacts therapeutic response, driving efforts to discover over-arching
rules that supersede variability. Here, we define pan-cancer binary classes based on distinct …

The genomic landscape of intrinsic and acquired resistance to cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitors in patients with hormone receptor–positive metastatic breast …

SA Wander, O Cohen, X Gong, GN Johnson… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Mechanisms driving resistance to cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitors (CDK4/6i) in
hormone receptor–positive (HR+) breast cancer have not been clearly defined. Whole …

The CDK4/6 inhibitor revolution—A game-changing era for breast cancer treatment

L Morrison, S Loibl, NC Turner - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibition in combination with endocrine
therapy is the standard-of-care treatment for patients with advanced-stage hormone receptor …

Synthetic lethality in cancer therapeutics: the next generation

J Setton, M Zinda, N Riaz, D Durocher, M Zimmermann… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Synthetic lethality (SL) provides a conceptual framework for tackling targets that are not
classically “druggable,” including loss-of-function mutations in tumor suppressor genes …

CDK/cyclin dependencies define extreme cancer cell-cycle heterogeneity and collateral vulnerabilities

ES Knudsen, V Kumarasamy, R Nambiar, JD Pearson… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Progression through G1/S phase of the cell cycle is coordinated by cyclin-dependent kinase
(CDK) activities. Here, we find that the requirement for different CDK activities and cyclins in …