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 …

Rational combinations of targeted cancer therapies: background, advances and challenges

H Jin, L Wang, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, elucidation of the genetic defects that underlie cancer has
resulted in a plethora of novel targeted cancer drugs. Although these agents can initially be …

RAS-targeted therapies: is the undruggable drugged?

AR Moore, SC Rosenberg, F McCormick… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract RAS (KRAS, NRAS and HRAS) is the most frequently mutated gene family in
cancers, and, consequently, investigators have sought an effective RAS inhibitor for more …

Molecular alterations and targeted therapy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Y Qian, Y Gong, Z Fan, G Luo, Q Huang… - Journal of hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a malignancy characterized by a poor
prognosis and high mortality rate. Genetic mutations and altered molecular pathways serve …

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 …

Scribble mis-localization induces adaptive resistance to KRAS G12C inhibitors through feedback activation of MAPK signaling mediated by YAP-induced MRAS

Y Adachi, R Kimura, K Hirade, S Yanase, Y Nishioka… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor cells evade targeted drugs by rewiring their genetic and epigenetic networks. Here,
we identified that inhibition of MAPK signaling rapidly induces an epithelial-to-mesenchymal …

MEK inhibitor resistance mechanisms and recent developments in combination trials

E Kun, YTM Tsang, CW Ng, DM Gershenson… - Cancer treatment …, 2021 - Elsevier
The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway plays a vital role in cellular
processes such as gene expression, cell proliferation, cell survival, and apoptosis. Also …

Rapid and direct control of target protein levels with VHL-recruiting dTAG molecules

B Nabet, FM Ferguson, BKA Seong, M Kuljanin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Chemical biology strategies for directly perturbing protein homeostasis including the
degradation tag (dTAG) system provide temporal advantages over genetic approaches and …

Complex synthetic lethality in cancer

CJ Ryan, LPS Devakumar, SJ Pettitt, CJ Lord - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The concept of synthetic lethality has been widely applied to identify therapeutic targets in
cancer, with varying degrees of success. The standard approach normally involves …

Combinatorial strategies to target RAS-driven cancers

N Perurena, L Situ, K Cichowski - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Although RAS was formerly considered undruggable, various agents that inhibit RAS or
specific RAS oncoproteins have now been developed. Indeed, the importance of directly …