Pancreatic cancer: Advances and challenges

CJ Halbrook, CA Lyssiotis, MP di Magliano, A Maitra - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the deadliest cancers. Significant
efforts have largely defined major genetic factors driving PDAC pathogenesis and …

Advances in covalent drug discovery

L Boike, NJ Henning, DK Nomura - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Covalent drugs have been used to treat diseases for more than a century, but tools that
facilitate the rational design of covalent drugs have emerged more recently. The purposeful …

Pan-KRAS inhibitor disables oncogenic signalling and tumour growth

D Kim, L Herdeis, D Rudolph, Y Zhao, J Böttcher… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
KRAS is one of the most commonly mutated proteins in cancer, and efforts to directly inhibit
its function have been continuing for decades. The most successful of these has been the …

Neoadjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer

C Springfeld, CR Ferrone, MHG Katz… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Patients with localized pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are best treated with
surgical resection of the primary tumour and systemic chemotherapy, which provides …

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 …

Drugging KRAS: current perspectives and state-of-art review

K Parikh, G Banna, SV Liu, A Friedlaender… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
After decades of efforts, we have recently made progress into targeting KRAS mutations in
several malignancies. Known as the 'holy grail'of targeted cancer therapies, KRAS is the …

Co-targeting SOS1 enhances the antitumor effects of KRASG12C inhibitors by addressing intrinsic and acquired resistance

V Thatikonda, H Lyu, S Jurado, K Kostyrko, CA Bristow… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Combination approaches are needed to strengthen and extend the clinical response to
KRASG12C inhibitors (KRASG12Ci). Here, we assessed the antitumor responses of …

KRAS G12V neoantigen specific T cell receptor for adoptive T cell therapy against tumors

D Lu, Y Chen, M Jiang, J Wang, Y Li, K Ma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
KRAS mutations are broadly recognized as promising targets for tumor therapy. T cell
receptors (TCRs) can specifically recognize KRAS mutant neoantigens presented by human …

BRAF—A tumour-agnostic drug target with lineage-specific dependencies

AJ Hanrahan, Z Chen, N Rosen, DB Solit - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2024 - nature.com
In June 2022, the FDA granted Accelerated Approval to the BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib in
combination with the MEK inhibitor trametinib for the treatment of adult and paediatric …

Combinatorial strategies to target RAS-driven cancers

N Perurena, L Situ, K Cichowski - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Although RAS was formerly considered undruggable, various agents that inhibit RAS or
specific RAS oncoproteins have now been developed. Indeed, the importance of directly …