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A drug’s most potent target is not necessarily the source of its anti-cancer activity
2022-10-16
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> The small-molecule drug ralimetinib was developed as an inhibitor of the kinase p38α, and it has advanced to phase 2 clinical trials in oncology. Here, we apply a multi-modal approach to demonstrate that ralimetinib’s anti-cancer activity occurs due to its ability to inhibit EGFR, rather than p38α. We find that cancer cell lines driven by EGFR mutations exhibit the greatest sensitivity to ralime...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ecad24b2-dd29-5d24-ad57-d8ef1f8b1762
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.10.16.512438
