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The Molecular Context of Vulnerability for CDK9 Suppression in Triple Wild-Type Melanoma.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Aug 2021
Guhan Samantha M, Shaughnessy Michael, Rajadurai Anpuchchelvi, Taylor Michael, Kumar Raj, Ji Zhenyu, Rashid Sarem, Flaherty Keith, Tsao Hensin
Abstract excerpt
Approximately half of melanoma tumors lack a druggable target and are unresponsive to current targeted therapeutics. One proposed approach for treating these therapeutically orphaned tumors is by targeting transcriptional dependencies (oncogene starvation), whereby survival factors are depleted through inhibition of transcriptional regulators. A drug screen identified a CDK9 inhibitor (SNS-032) to have...
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