Twist1 suppresses senescence programs and thereby accelerates and maintains mutant Kras-induced lung tumorigenesis.

KRAS mutant lung cancers are generally refractory to chemotherapy as well targeted agents. To date, the identification of drugs to therapeutically inhibit K-RAS have been unsuccessful, suggesting that other approaches are required. We demonstrate in both a novel transgenic mutant Kras lung cancer mo...

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Main Authors: Phuoc T Tran, Emelyn H Shroff, Timothy F Burns, Saravanan Thiyagarajan, Sandhya T Das, Tahera Zabuawala, Joy Chen, Yoon-Jae Cho, Richard Luong, Pablo Tamayo, Tarek Salih, Khaled Aziz, Stacey J Adam, Silvestre Vicent, Carsten H Nielsen, Nadia Withofs, Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, Sanjiv S Gambhir, Charles M Rudin, Dean W Felsher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3360067?pdf=render