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 …

Immune modulatory effects of oncogenic KRAS in cancer

S Hamarsheh, O Groß, T Brummer, R Zeiser - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Oncogenic KRAS mutations are the most frequent mutations in human cancer, but most
difficult to target. While sustained proliferation caused by oncogenic KRAS-downstream …

Mutational landscape of metastatic cancer revealed from prospective clinical sequencing of 10,000 patients

A Zehir, R Benayed, RH Shah, A Syed, S Middha… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Tumor molecular profiling is a fundamental component of precision oncology, enabling the
identification of genomic alterations in genes and pathways that can be targeted …

Broadening the impact of immunotherapy to pancreatic cancer: challenges and opportunities

VP Balachandran, GL Beatty, SK Dougan - Gastroenterology, 2019 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is projected to become the second deadliest
cancer in the United States by 2025, with 5-year survival at less than 10%. In other …

Suppression of STING associated with LKB1 loss in KRAS-driven lung cancer

S Kitajima, E Ivanova, S Guo, R Yoshida, M Campisi… - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
KRAS-driven lung cancers frequently inactivate TP53 and/or STK11/LKB1, defining tumor
subclasses with emerging clinical relevance. Specifically, KRAS-LKB1 (KL)–mutant lung …

Ex Vivo Profiling of PD-1 Blockade Using Organotypic Tumor Spheroids

RW Jenkins, AR Aref, PH Lizotte, E Ivanova, S Stinson… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Ex vivo systems that incorporate features of the tumor microenvironment and model the
dynamic response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) may facilitate efforts in precision …

Therapeutic strategies to target RAS-mutant cancers

MB Ryan, RB Corcoran - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2018 - nature.com
RAS genes are the most commonly mutated oncogenes in cancer, but effective therapeutic
strategies to target RAS-mutant cancers have proved elusive. A key aspect of this challenge …

Drugging the undruggable RAS: Mission possible?

AD Cox, SW Fesik, AC Kimmelman, J Luo… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2014 - nature.com
Despite more than three decades of intensive effort, no effective pharmacological inhibitors
of the RAS oncoproteins have reached the clinic, prompting the widely held perception that …

STK11/LKB1 deficiency promotes neutrophil recruitment and proinflammatory cytokine production to suppress T-cell activity in the lung tumor microenvironment

S Koyama, EA Akbay, YY Li, AR Aref, F Skoulidis… - Cancer research, 2016 - AACR
STK11/LKB1 is among the most commonly inactivated tumor suppressors in non–small cell
lung cancer (NSCLC), especially in tumors harboring KRAS mutations. Many oncogenes …

The improbable targeted therapy: KRAS as an emerging target in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

R Salgia, R Pharaon, I Mambetsariev, A Nam… - Cell Reports …, 2021 - cell.com
KRAS is a frequent oncogenic driver in solid tumors, including non-small cell lung cancer
(NSCLC). It was previously thought to be an" undruggable" target due to the lack of deep …