Targeting mutant KRAS for anticancer therapy

Fengqian Chen, Martin P. Alphonse, Yan Liu, Qi Liu

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Abstract

Over the past decades, designing therapeutic strategies to target KRAS-mutant cancers, which is one of the most frequent mutant oncogenes among all cancer types, have proven unsuccessful regardless of many concerted attempts. There are key challenges for KRAS-mutant anticancer therapy, as the complex cellular processes involved in KRAS signaling has present. Herein, we highlight the emerging therapeutic approaches for inhibiting KRAS signaling and blocking KRAS functions, in hope to serve as a more effective guideline for future development of therapeutics.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2098-2113
Number of pages16
JournalCurrent topics in medicinal chemistry
Volume19
Issue number23
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

Keywords

  • Anticancer therapeutics
  • Cell signaling
  • Guanosine triphosphate-bound RAS
  • KRAS mutant
  • KRAS pathway
  • Oncogene

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Drug Discovery

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