Article
The response to PAK1 inhibitor IPA3 distinguishes between cancer cells with mutations in BRAF and Ras oncogenes.
Oncotarget - 1 Jul 2012
Singhal Ruchi, Kandel Eugene S
Abstract excerpt
While new drugs aimed at BRAF-mutated cancers are entering clinical practice, cells and tumors with activating Ras mutations are relatively resistant to those and quite a few other anti-cancer agents. This inspires the effort to reverse this resistance or to uncover new vulnerabilities in such resistant cancers. IPA3 has been originally identified as a small molecule inhibitor of p21-activated protein kinase 1...
Topics
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Colonic Neoplasms
- Genes, ras
- Humans
- Melanoma
- Mutation
- Protein Kinase Inhibitors
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf
- p21-Activated Kinases
