Met, metastasis, motility and more

C Birchmeier, W Birchmeier, E Gherardi… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2003 - nature.com
Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor and its receptor, the tyrosine kinase Met, arose late in
evolution and are unique to vertebrates. In spite of this, Met uses molecules such as Gab1 …

c-Met as a target for human cancer and characterization of inhibitors for therapeutic intervention

JG Christensen, J Burrows, R Salgia - Cancer letters, 2005 - Elsevier
Receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) targeted agents such as trastuzumab, imatinib,
bevacizumab, and gefitinib inhibitors have illustrated the utility of targeting this protein class …

Akt forms an intracellular complex with heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) and Cdc37 and is destabilized by inhibitors of Hsp90 function

AD Basso, DB Solit, G Chiosis, B Giri, P Tsichlis… - Journal of Biological …, 2002 - ASBMB
Hsp90 is a chaperone required for the conformational maturation of certain signaling
proteins including Raf, cdk4, and steroid receptors. Natural products and synthetic small …

c-Met: structure, functions and potential for therapeutic inhibition

PC Ma, G Maulik, J Christensen, R Salgia - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2003 - Springer
Studies on signal transduction pathways have generated various promising molecular
targets for therapeutic inhibition in cancer therapy. Receptor tyrosine kinases represent an …

Issues and progress with protein kinase inhibitors for cancer treatment

J Dancey, EA Sausville - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2003 - nature.com
Identification of the key roles of protein kinases in cancer has led to extensive efforts to
develop kinase inhibitors for the treatment of a wide range of cancers, and more than 30 …

Treatment outcome and survival associated with metastatic renal cell carcinoma of non–clear-cell histology

RJ Motzer, J Bacik, T Mariani, P Russo… - Journal of Clinical …, 2002 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE: To define outcome data for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC)
with histology other than clear-cell type, including collecting duct (or medullary carcinoma) …

Targeting the c-Met signaling pathway in cancer

B Peruzzi, DP Bottaro - Clinical cancer research, 2006 - AACR
On binding to the cell surface receptor tyrosine kinase (TK) known as c-Met, hepatocyte
growth factor (HGF) stimulates mitogenesis, motogenesis, and morphogenesis in a wide …

Role of the hepatocyte growth factor receptor, c-Met, in oncogenesis and potential for therapeutic inhibition

G Maulik, A Shrikhande, T Kijima, PC Ma… - Cytokine & growth factor …, 2002 - Elsevier
Receptor tyrosine kinases have become important therapeutic targets for anti-neoplastic
molecularly targeted therapies. c-Met is a receptor tyrosine kinase shown to be over …

HSP90 as a new therapeutic target for cancer therapy: the story unfolds

A Maloney, P Workman - Expert opinion on biological therapy, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Current anticancer drug development strategies involve identifying novel molecular targets
which are crucial for tumourigenesis. The molecular chaperone heat shock protein (HSP) 90 …

MET: a promising anticancer therapeutic target

S Peters, AA Adjei - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2012 - nature.com
The MET pathway is dysregulated in many human cancers and promotes tumour growth,
invasion and dissemination. Abnormalities in MET signalling have been reported to …