KRAS mutation: from undruggable to druggable in cancer

L Huang, Z Guo, F Wang, L Fu - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide, and its treatment and outcomes have been
dramatically revolutionised by targeted therapies. As the most frequently mutated oncogene …

Genetic and biological hallmarks of colorectal cancer

J Li, X Ma, D Chakravarti, S Shalapour… - Genes & …, 2021 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Colorectal cancer has served as a genetic and biological paradigm for the evolution of solid
tumors, and these insights have illuminated early detection, risk stratification, prevention …

KRAS mutation in pancreatic cancer

J Luo - Seminars in oncology, 2021 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer is a recalcitrant cancer with one of the lowest 5-year survival rates. A
hallmark of pancreatic cancer is the prevalence of oncogenic mutation in the KRAS gene …

Mitochondrial metabolism promotes adaptation to proteotoxic stress

P Tsvetkov, A Detappe, K Cai, HR Keys… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
The mechanisms by which cells adapt to proteotoxic stress are largely unknown, but are key
to understanding how tumor cells, particularly in vivo, are largely resistant to proteasome …

Therapeutic targeting of long non-coding RNAs in cancer

G Arun, SD Diermeier, DL Spector - Trends in molecular medicine, 2018 - cell.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) represent a significant population of the human
transcriptome. Many lncRNAs exhibit cell-and/or tissue/tumor-specific expression, making …

Synthetic lethal therapies for cancer: what's next after PARP inhibitors?

A Ashworth, CJ Lord - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2018 - nature.com
The genetic concept of synthetic lethality has now been validated clinically through the
demonstrated efficacy of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors for the treatment of …

Gene essentiality profiling reveals gene networks and synthetic lethal interactions with oncogenic Ras

T Wang, H Yu, NW Hughes, B Liu, A Kendirli, K Klein… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The genetic dependencies of human cancers widely vary. Here, we catalog this
heterogeneity and use it to identify functional gene interactions and genotype-dependent …

RAS isoforms and mutations in cancer at a glance

GA Hobbs, CJ Der, KL Rossman - Journal of cell science, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT RAS proteins (KRAS4A, KRAS4B, NRAS and HRAS) function as GDP–GTP-
regulated binary on-off switches, which regulate cytoplasmic signaling networks that control …

A CRISPR dropout screen identifies genetic vulnerabilities and therapeutic targets in acute myeloid leukemia

K Tzelepis, H Koike-Yusa, E De Braekeleer, Y Li… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive cancer with a poor prognosis, for which
mainstream treatments have not changed for decades. To identify additional therapeutic …

Drugging the undruggable RAS: Mission possible?

AD Cox, SW Fesik, AC Kimmelman, J Luo… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2014 - nature.com
Despite more than three decades of intensive effort, no effective pharmacological inhibitors
of the RAS oncoproteins have reached the clinic, prompting the widely held perception that …