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Cancer drug addiction is relayed by an ERK2-dependent phenotype switch.
Nature - 12 Oct 2017
Kong Xiangjun, Kuilman Thomas, Shahrabi Aida, Boshuizen Julia, Kemper Kristel, Song Ji-Ying, Niessen Hans W M, Rozeman Elisa A, Geukes Foppen Marnix H, Blank Christian U, Peeper Daniel S
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Observations from cultured cells, animal models and patients raise the possibility that the dependency of tumours on the therapeutic drugs to which they have acquired resistance represents a vulnerability with potential applications in cancer treatment. However, for this drug addiction trait to become of clinical interest, we must first define the mechanism that underlies it. We performed an unbiased CRISPR-Cas9...
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