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 …

Targeting KRAS mutant cancers: from druggable therapy to drug resistance

C Zhu, X Guan, X Zhang, X Luan, Z Song, X Cheng… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Kirsten Rat Sarcoma Viral Oncogene Homolog (KRAS) is the most frequently
mutated oncogene, occurring in a variety of tumor types. Targeting KRAS mutations with …

Direct small-molecule inhibitors of KRAS: from structural insights to mechanism-based design

JML Ostrem, KM Shokat - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2016 - nature.com
KRAS is the most frequently mutated oncogene in human cancer. In addition to holding this
distinction, unsuccessful attempts to target this protein have led to the characterization of …

Neurofibromin structure, functions and regulation

M Bergoug, M Doudeau, F Godin, C Mosrin, B Vallée… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Neurofibromin is a large and multifunctional protein encoded by the tumor suppressor gene
NF1, mutations of which cause the tumor predisposition syndrome neurofibromatosis type 1 …

A RASopathy gene commonly mutated in cancer: the neurofibromatosis type 1 tumour suppressor

N Ratner, SJ Miller - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common genetic disorder that predisposes
affected individuals to tumours. The NF1 gene encodes a RAS GTPase-activating protein …

Distinctive cancer associations in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1

E Uusitalo, M Rantanen, RA Kallionpää… - Journal of Clinical …, 2016 - ascopubs.org
Purpose The current study was designed to determine the risk of cancer in patients with
neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) by cancer type, age, and sex with unprecedented accuracy …

The genomic landscape of hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia

L Holmfeldt, L Wei, E Diaz-Flores, M Walsh, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The genetic basis of hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a subtype of ALL
characterized by aneuploidy and poor outcome, is unknown. Genomic profiling of 124 …

RAS oncogenes: the first 30 years

M Malumbres, M Barbacid - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2003 - nature.com
From the pioneering work with acute transforming retroviruses to the current post-genomic
era, RAS genes have always been at the leading edge of signal transduction and molecular …

Ras oncogenes: split personalities

AE Karnoub, RA Weinberg - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2008 - nature.com
Extensive research on the Ras proteins and their functions in cell physiology over the past
30 years has led to numerous insights that have revealed the involvement of Ras not only in …

Hyperactive Ras in developmental disorders and cancer

S Schubbert, K Shannon, G Bollag - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2007 - nature.com
Ras genes are the most common targets for somatic gain-of-function mutations in human
cancer. Recently, germline mutations that affect components of the Ras–Raf–mitogen …