BAY61-3606 affects the viability of colon cancer cells in a genotype-directed manner.

K-RAS mutation poses a particularly difficult problem for cancer therapy. Activating mutations in K-RAS are common in cancers of the lung, pancreas, and colon and are associated with poor response to therapy. As such, targeted therapies that abrogate K-RAS-induced oncogenicity would be of tremendous...

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Main Authors: Ken S Lau, Tinghu Zhang, Krystle R Kendall, Douglas Lauffenburger, Nathanael S Gray, Kevin M Haigis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3399817?pdf=render