Targeting the MAPK pathway in KRAS-driven tumors

M Drosten, M Barbacid - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
KRAS mutations occur in a quarter of all of human cancers, yet no selective drug has been
approved to treat these tumors. Despite the recent development of drugs that block KRAS …

MEK1 and MEK2 inhibitors and cancer therapy: the long and winding road

CJ Caunt, MJ Sale, PD Smith, SJ Cook - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
The role of the ERK signalling pathway in cancer is thought to be most prominent in tumours
in which mutations in the receptor tyrosine kinases RAS, BRAF, CRAF, MEK1 or MEK2 drive …

Cortical astrocytes independently regulate sleep depth and duration via separate GPCR pathways

TV Vaidyanathan, M Collard, S Yokoyama… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, characterized by slow-wave electrophysiological
activity, underlies several critical functions, including learning and memory. However, NREM …

The ERBB network: at last, cancer therapy meets systems biology

Y Yarden, G Pines - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2012 - nature.com
Although it is broadly agreed that the improved treatment of patients with cancer will depend
on a deeper molecular understanding of the underlying pathogenesis, only a few examples …

Tissue-specific tumorigenesis: context matters

G Schneider, M Schmidt-Supprian, R Rad… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
How can we treat cancer more effectively? Traditionally, tumours from the same anatomical
site are treated as one tumour entity. This concept has been challenged by recent …

[HTML][HTML] Encoding and decoding cellular information through signaling dynamics

JE Purvis, G Lahav - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
A growing number of studies are revealing that cells can send and receive information by
controlling the temporal behavior (dynamics) of their signaling molecules. In this Review, we …

Revitalizing membrane rafts: new tools and insights

K Simons, MJ Gerl - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2010 - nature.com
Ten years ago, we wrote a Review on lipid rafts and signalling in the launch issue of Nature
Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. At the time, this field was suffering from ambiguous …

Stem cell extracellular vesicles: extended messages of regeneration

M Riazifar, EJ Pone, J Lötvall… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Stem cells are critical to maintaining steady-state organ homeostasis and regenerating
injured tissues. Recent intriguing reports implicate extracellular vesicles (EVs) as carriers for …

Dual‐specificity MAP kinase phosphatases (MKPs) Shaping the outcome of MAP kinase signalling

CJ Caunt, SM Keyse - The FEBS journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Dual‐specificity MAP kinase phosphatases (MKPs) provide a complex negative regulatory
network that acts to shape the duration, magnitude and spatiotemporal profile of MAP kinase …

Lipid-sorting specificity encoded in K-Ras membrane anchor regulates signal output

Y Zhou, P Prakash, H Liang, KJ Cho, AA Gorfe… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
K-Ras is targeted to the plasma membrane by a C-terminal membrane anchor that
comprises a farnesyl-cysteine-methyl-ester and a polybasic domain. We used quantitative …