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Drug resistance in anaplastic lymphoma kinase-rearranged lung cancer.
Cancer science - 1 Mar 2018
Katayama Ryohei
Abstract excerpt
The anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase, and many kinds of ALK fusion genes have been found in a variety of carcinomas. There is almost no detectable expression of ALK in adults. However, through ALK gene rearrangement, the resultant ALK fusion protein is aberrantly overexpressed and dimerized through the oligomerization domains, such as the coiled-coil domain, in the fusion...
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