Regulated cell death (RCD) in cancer: key pathways and targeted therapies

F Peng, M Liao, R Qin, S Zhu, C Peng, L Fu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Regulated cell death (RCD), also well-known as programmed cell death (PCD), refers to the
form of cell death that can be regulated by a variety of biomacromolecules, which is …

Targeting MAPK signaling in cancer: mechanisms of drug resistance and sensitivity

S Lee, J Rauch, W Kolch - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways represent ubiquitous signal transduction
pathways that regulate all aspects of life and are frequently altered in disease. Here, we …

Emerging insights of tumor heterogeneity and drug resistance mechanisms in lung cancer targeted therapy

ZF Lim, PC Ma - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2019 - Springer
The biggest hurdle to targeted cancer therapy is the inevitable emergence of drug
resistance. Tumor cells employ different mechanisms to resist the targeting agent. Most …

Uncovering novel mutational signatures by de novo extraction with SigProfilerExtractor

SMA Islam, M Díaz-Gay, Y Wu, M Barnes, R Vangara… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Mutational signature analysis is commonly performed in cancer genomic studies. Here, we
present SigProfilerExtractor, an automated tool for de novo extraction of mutational …

Targeting oncogenic BRAF: past, present, and future

A Zaman, W Wu, TG Bivona - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Identifying recurrent somatic genetic alterations of, and dependency on, the kinase BRAF
has enabled a “precision medicine” paradigm to diagnose and treat BRAF-driven tumors …

Targeting cancer with kinase inhibitors

S Gross, R Rahal, N Stransky… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Kinase inhibitors have played an increasingly prominent role in the treatment of cancer and
other diseases. Currently, more than 25 oncology drugs that target kinases have been …

Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR and RAF/MEK/ERK pathways for cancer therapy

Q Li, Z Li, T Luo, H Shi - Molecular biomedicine, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The PI3K/AKT/mTOR and RAF/MEK/ERK pathways are commonly activated by
mutations and chromosomal translocation in vital targets. The PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling …

Current advances in the treatment of BRAF-mutant melanoma

H Patel, N Yacoub, R Mishra, A White, L Yuan… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer. Melanoma is usually curable with surgery if
detected early, however, treatment options for patients with metastatic melanoma are limited …

Diverse mechanisms of BRAF inhibitor resistance in melanoma identified in clinical and preclinical studies

SA Luebker, SA Koepsell - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
BRAF inhibitor therapy may provide profound initial tumor regression in metastatic
melanoma with BRAF V600 mutations, but treatment resistance often leads to disease …

Targeting the MAPK signaling pathway in cancer: promising preclinical activity with the novel selective ERK1/2 inhibitor BVD-523 (ulixertinib)

UA Germann, BF Furey, W Markland, RR Hoover… - Molecular cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Aberrant activation of signaling through the RAS–RAF–MEK–ERK (MAPK) pathway is
implicated in numerous cancers, making it an attractive therapeutic target. Although BRAF …