Targeting the RAS/RAF/MAPK pathway for cancer therapy: from mechanism to clinical studies

ME Bahar, HJ Kim, DR Kim - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Metastatic dissemination of solid tumors, a leading cause of cancer-related mortality,
underscores the urgent need for enhanced insights into the molecular and cellular …

Targeting aberrant RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK signaling for cancer therapy

U Degirmenci, M Wang, J Hu - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK (MAPK) signaling cascade is essential for cell inter-and intra-
cellular communication, which regulates fundamental cell functions such as growth, survival …

KRAS interaction with RAF1 RAS-binding domain and cysteine-rich domain provides insights into RAS-mediated RAF activation

TH Tran, AH Chan, LC Young, L Bindu, C Neale… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The first step of RAF activation involves binding to active RAS, resulting in the recruitment of
RAF to the plasma membrane. To understand the molecular details of RAS-RAF interaction …

Regulation of RAF protein kinases in ERK signalling

H Lavoie, M Therrien - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
RAF family kinases were among the first oncoproteins to be described more than 30 years
ago. They primarily act as signalling relays downstream of RAS, and their close ties to …

Architecture of autoinhibited and active BRAF–MEK1–14-3-3 complexes

E Park, S Rawson, K Li, BW Kim, SB Ficarro, GGD Pino… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
RAF family kinases are RAS-activated switches that initiate signalling through the MAP
kinase cascade to control cellular proliferation, differentiation and survival,–. RAF activity is …

Tumor adaptation and resistance to RAF inhibitors

P Lito, N Rosen, DB Solit - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
RAF kinase inhibitors have substantial therapeutic effects in patients with BRAF-mutant
melanoma. However, only rarely do tumors regress completely, and the therapeutic effects …

Structural insights into the BRAF monomer-to-dimer transition mediated by RAS binding

JA Martinez Fiesco, DE Durrant, DK Morrison… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
RAF kinases are essential effectors of RAS, but how RAS binding initiates the
conformational changes needed for autoinhibited RAF monomers to form active dimers has …

Small GTP-binding proteins

Y Takai, T Sasaki, T Matozaki - Physiological reviews, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
Small GTP-binding proteins (G proteins) exist in eukaryotes from yeast to human and
constitute a superfamily consisting of more than 100 members. This superfamily is …

Signaling from RAS to RAF: the molecules and their mechanisms

H Jeon, E Tkacik, MJ Eck - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2024 - annualreviews.org
RAF family protein kinases are a key node in the RAS/RAF/MAP kinase pathway, the
signaling cascade that controls cellular proliferation, differentiation, and survival in response …

Zinc coordination sphere in biochemical zinc sites

DS Auld - Zinc biochemistry, physiology, and homeostasis: recent …, 2001 - Springer
Zinc is known to be indispensable to growth and development and transmission of the
genetic message. It does this through a remarkable mosaic of zinc binding motifs that …