[HTML][HTML] Exploiting senescence for the treatment of cancer

L Wang, L Lankhorst, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Senescence is a cellular response to a variety of stress signals that is characterized by a
stable withdrawal from the cell cycle and major changes in cell morphology and physiology …

Targeting CDK4 and CDK6 in cancer

S Goel, JS Bergholz, JJ Zhao - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) and CDK6 are critical mediators of cellular
transition into S phase and are important for the initiation, growth and survival of many …

[HTML][HTML] Small molecules in targeted cancer therapy: advances, challenges, and future perspectives

L Zhong, Y Li, L Xiong, W Wang, M Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Due to the advantages in efficacy and safety compared with traditional chemotherapy drugs,
targeted therapeutic drugs have become mainstream cancer treatments. Since the first …

[HTML][HTML] Kinase drug discovery 20 years after imatinib: progress and future directions

P Cohen, D Cross, PA Jänne - Nature reviews drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Protein kinases regulate nearly all aspects of cell life, and alterations in their expression, or
mutations in their genes, cause cancer and other diseases. Here, we review the remarkable …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibiting CDK4/6 in breast cancer with palbociclib, ribociclib, and abemaciclib: similarities and differences

CL Braal, EM Jongbloed, SM Wilting, RHJ Mathijssen… - Drugs, 2021 - Springer
The cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitors belong to a new class of drugs that
interrupt proliferation of malignant cells by inhibiting progression through the cell cycle …

CDK4 and CDK6 kinases: From basic science to cancer therapy

A Fassl, Y Geng, P Sicinski - Science, 2022 - science.org
BACKGROUND Cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) drive cell division. Of
particular importance to the cancer field are D-cyclins, which activate CDK4 and CDK6. In …

Challenges and opportunities in cancer drug resistance

RA Ward, S Fawell, N Floc'h, V Flemington… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
There has been huge progress in the discovery of targeted cancer therapies in recent years.
However, even for the most successful and impactful cancer drugs which have been …

[HTML][HTML] Activation of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway causes drug resistance in breast cancer

C Dong, J Wu, Y Chen, J Nie, C Chen - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Although chemotherapy, targeted therapy and endocrine therapy decrease rate of disease
recurrence in most breast cancer patients, many patients exhibit acquired resistance …

Adjuvant palbociclib for early breast cancer: the PALLAS trial results (ABCSG-42/AFT-05/BIG-14-03)

M Gnant, AC Dueck, S Frantal, M Martin… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Palbociclib is a cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6 inhibitor approved for advanced
breast cancer. In the adjuvant setting, the potential value of adding palbociclib to endocrine …

[HTML][HTML] A human breast cancer-derived xenograft and organoid platform for drug discovery and precision oncology

KP Guillen, M Fujita, AJ Butterfield, SD Scherer… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Models that recapitulate the complexity of human tumors are urgently needed to
develop more effective cancer therapies. We report a bank of human patient-derived …