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 …

Advancing targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy

B Dale, M Cheng, KS Park, HÜ Kaniskan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The human proteome contains approximately 20,000 proteins, and it is estimated that more
than 600 of them are functionally important for various types of cancers, including nearly 400 …

Expanding the Reach of Precision Oncology by Drugging All KRAS Mutants

MH Hofmann, D Gerlach, S Misale, M Petronczki… - Cancer Discovery, 2022 - AACR
KRAS is the most frequently mutated oncogene, harboring mutations in approximately one
in seven cancers. Allele-specific KRASG12C inhibitors are currently changing the treatment …

MYCN mediates cysteine addiction and sensitizes neuroblastoma to ferroptosis

H Alborzinia, AF Flórez, S Kreth, LM Brückner, U Yildiz… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Aberrant expression of MYC transcription factor family members predicts poor clinical
outcome in many human cancers. Oncogenic MYC profoundly alters metabolism and …

Independent drug action in combination therapy: implications for precision oncology

D Plana, AC Palmer, PK Sorger - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Combination therapies are superior to monotherapy for many cancers. This advantage was
historically ascribed to the ability of combinations to address tumor heterogeneity, but …

The KRASG12C Inhibitor MRTX849 Provides Insight toward Therapeutic Susceptibility of KRAS-Mutant Cancers in Mouse Models and Patients

J Hallin, LD Engstrom, L Hargis, A Calinisan, R Aranda… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Despite decades of research, efforts to directly target KRAS have been challenging.
MRTX849 was identified as a potent, selective, and covalent KRASG12C inhibitor that …

A view on drug resistance in cancer

N Vasan, J Baselga, DM Hyman - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The problem of resistance to therapy in cancer is multifaceted. Here we take a reductionist
approach to define and separate the key determinants of drug resistance, which include …

Next-generation characterization of the cancer cell line encyclopedia

M Ghandi, FW Huang, J Jané-Valbuena, GV Kryukov… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Large panels of comprehensively characterized human cancer models, including the
Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE), have provided a rigorous framework with which to …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines

E Gonçalves, RC Poulos, Z Cai, S Barthorpe… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The proteome provides unique insights into disease biology beyond the genome and
transcriptome. A lack of large proteomic datasets has restricted the identification of new …