MET-dependent solid tumours—molecular diagnosis and targeted therapy

R Guo, J Luo, J Chang, N Rekhtman, M Arcila… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Attempts to develop MET-targeted therapies have historically focused on MET-expressing
cancers, with limited success. Thus, MET expression in the absence of a genomic marker of …

Known and novel roles of the MET oncogene in cancer: a coherent approach to targeted therapy

PM Comoglio, L Trusolino, C Boccaccio - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The MET oncogene encodes an unconventional receptor tyrosine kinase with pleiotropic
functions: it initiates and sustains neoplastic transformation when genetically altered …

Targeting MET in cancer: rationale and progress

E Gherardi, W Birchmeier, C Birchmeier… - Nature reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Uncontrolled cell survival, growth, angiogenesis and metastasis are essential hallmarks of
cancer. Genetic and biochemical data have demonstrated that the growth and motility factor …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond epidermal growth factor receptor: MET amplification as a general resistance driver to targeted therapy in oncogene-driven non-small-cell lung cancer

N Coleman, L Hong, J Zhang, J Heymach, D Hong… - ESMO open, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Understanding mechanisms of resistance in oncogene-driven lung cancer is
crucial.•MET amplification is a recurrent driver of resistance, across molecularly defined …

Targeting MET Dysregulation in Cancer

G Recondo, J Che, PA Jänne, MM Awad - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Aberrant MET signaling can drive tumorigenesis in several cancer types through a variety of
molecular mechanisms including MET gene amplification, mutation, rearrangement, and …

An overview of the c-MET signaling pathway

SL Organ, MS Tsao - Therapeutic advances in medical …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
c-MET is a receptor tyrosine kinase that, after binding with its ligand, hepatocyte growth
factor, activates a wide range of different cellular signaling pathways, including those …

MET signalling: principles and functions in development, organ regeneration and cancer

L Trusolino, A Bertotti, PM Comoglio - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2010 - nature.com
The MET tyrosine kinase receptor (also known as the HGF receptor) promotes tissue
remodelling, which underlies developmental morphogenesis, wound repair, organ …

Epithelial–mesenchymal transitions in tumour progression

JP Thiery - Nature reviews cancer, 2002 - nature.com
Without epithelial–mesenchymal transitions, in which polarized epithelial cells are converted
into motile cells, multicellular organisms would be incapable of getting past the blastula …

The role of signaling pathways in the development and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

S Whittaker, R Marais, AX Zhu - Oncogene, 2010 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly prevalent, treatment-resistant malignancy with a
multifaceted molecular pathogenesis. Current evidence indicates that during …

Met, metastasis, motility and more

C Birchmeier, W Birchmeier, E Gherardi… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2003 - nature.com
Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor and its receptor, the tyrosine kinase Met, arose late in
evolution and are unique to vertebrates. In spite of this, Met uses molecules such as Gab1 …