Gilteritinib overcomes lorlatinib resistance in ALK-rearranged cancer

Resistance to ALK inhibitors such as lorlatinib often arise due to on-target mutations. Here, the authors show the multi-kinase inhibitor gilteritinib is effective against different mutations that arise during lorlatinib in ALK fusion positive lung cancer to cause resistance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hayato Mizuta, Koutaroh Okada, Mitsugu Araki, Jun Adachi, Ai Takemoto, Justyna Kutkowska, Kohei Maruyama, Noriko Yanagitani, Tomoko Oh-hara, Kana Watanabe, Keiichi Tamai, Luc Friboulet, Kazuhiro Katayama, Biao Ma, Yoko Sasakura, Yukari Sagae, Mutsuko Kukimoto-Niino, Mikako Shirouzu, Satoshi Takagi, Siro Simizu, Makoto Nishio, Yasushi Okuno, Naoya Fujita, Ryohei Katayama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21396-w