RAF-MEK-ERK pathway in cancer evolution and treatment

R Ullah, Q Yin, AH Snell, L Wan - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The RAF-MEK-ERK signaling cascade is a well-characterized MAPK pathway
involved in cell proliferation and survival. The three-layered MAPK signaling cascade is …

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 …

Accurate and efficient detection of gene fusions from RNA sequencing data

S Uhrig, J Ellermann, T Walther, P Burkhardt… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
The identification of gene fusions from RNA sequencing data is a routine task in cancer
research and precision oncology. However, despite the availability of many computational …

Molecular Characterization of KRAS Wild-type Tumors in Patients with Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

PA Philip, I Azar, J **u, MJ Hall, AE Hendifar… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - aacrjournals.org
Purpose: KRAS mutation (MT) is a major oncogenic driver in pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC). A small subset of PDACs harbor KRAS wild-type (WT). We aim to …

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 …

High yield of RNA sequencing for targetable kinase fusions in lung adenocarcinomas with no mitogenic driver alteration detected by DNA sequencing and low tumor …

R Benayed, M Offin, K Mullaney… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
Purpose: Targeted next-generation sequencing of DNA has become more widely used in
the management of patients with lung adenocarcinoma; however, no clear mitogenic driver …

The emerging clinical relevance of genomics in cancer medicine

MF Berger, ER Mardis - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2018 - nature.com
The combination of next-generation sequencing and advanced computational data analysis
approaches has revolutionized our understanding of the genomic underpinnings of cancer …

Targeting alterations in the RAF–MEK pathway

R Yaeger, RB Corcoran - Cancer discovery, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
The MAPK pathway is one of the most commonly mutated oncogenic pathways in cancer.
Although RAS mutations are the most frequent MAPK alterations, less frequent alterations in …

[HTML][HTML] Navigating the ERK1/2 MAPK cascade

A Martin-Vega, MH Cobb - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The RAS-ERK pathway is a fundamental signaling cascade crucial for many biological
processes including proliferation, cell cycle control, growth, and survival; common across all …

Classifying BRAF alterations in cancer: new rational therapeutic strategies for actionable mutations

M Dankner, AAN Rose, S Rajkumar, PM Siegel… - Oncogene, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The RAS–RAF–MEK–ERK signaling cascade is among the most frequently mutated
pathways in human cancer. Approximately 50% of melanoma patients possess a druggable …