The PI3K pathway in human disease

DA Fruman, H Chiu, BD Hopkins, S Bagrodia… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activity is stimulated by diverse oncogenes and growth
factor receptors, and elevated PI3K signaling is considered a hallmark of cancer. Many PI3K …

Targeted agents and immunotherapies: optimizing outcomes in melanoma

JJ Luke, KT Flaherty, A Ribas, GV Long - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment options for patients with metastatic melanoma, and especially BRAF-
mutant melanoma, have changed dramatically in the past 5 years, with the FDA approval of …

Combined BRAF, EGFR, and MEK Inhibition in Patients with BRAFV600E-Mutant Colorectal Cancer

RB Corcoran, T André, CE Atreya, JHM Schellens… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Although BRAF inhibitor monotherapy yields response rates> 50% in BRAF V600-mutant
melanoma, only approximately 5% of patients with BRAF V600E colorectal cancer respond …

Melanoma cell-intrinsic PD-1 receptor functions promote tumor growth

S Kleffel, C Posch, SR Barthel, H Mueller… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Therapeutic antibodies targeting programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) activate tumor-specific
immunity and have shown remarkable efficacy in the treatment of melanoma. Yet, little is …

PI3K and cancer: lessons, challenges and opportunities

DA Fruman, C Rommel - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
The central role of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activation in tumour cell biology has
prompted a sizeable effort to target PI3K and/or downstream kinases such as AKT and …

The BCL2 family: key mediators of the apoptotic response to targeted anticancer therapeutics

AN Hata, JA Engelman, AC Faber - Cancer discovery, 2015 - AACR
The ability of cancer cells to suppress apoptosis is critical for carcinogenesis. The BCL2
family proteins comprise the sentinel network that regulates the mitochondrial or intrinsic …

Combined BRAF and MEK Inhibition With Dabrafenib and Trametinib in BRAF V600–Mutant Colorectal Cancer

RB Corcoran, CE Atreya, GS Falchook… - Journal of clinical …, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Purpose To evaluate dabrafenib, a selective BRAF inhibitor, combined with trametinib, a
selective MEK inhibitor, in patients with BRAF V600–mutant metastatic colorectal cancer …

Highly multiplexed imaging of single cells using a high-throughput cyclic immunofluorescence method

JR Lin, M Fallahi-Sichani, PK Sorger - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Single-cell analysis reveals aspects of cellular physiology not evident from population-
based studies, particularly in the case of highly multiplexed methods such as mass …

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 …

mTOR-mediated cancer drug resistance suppresses autophagy and generates a druggable metabolic vulnerability

N Gremke, P Polo, A Dort, J Schneikert… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer cells have a characteristic metabolism, mostly caused by alterations in signal
transduction networks rather than mutations in metabolic enzymes. For metabolic drugs to …