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Association details:
Evidence:
Evidence Level:
Resistant: D – Preclinical
New
Title:

Lung cancers with acquired resistance to EGFR inhibitors occasionally harbor BRAF gene mutations but lack mutations in KRAS, NRAS, or MEK1

Excerpt:
...we introduced cDNAs encoding NRAS Q61K or BRAF G469A in PC-9 cells and BRAF V600E in both PC-9 and PC-9R cells and treated cell transfectants with various inhibitors….Ectopic expression of these mutants but not their wild-type counterparts led to constitutive pERK activation, even in the presence of erlotinib or afatinib...Consistent with these data, EGFR-mutant cells with stable expression of either mutant were resistant to growth inhibition by erlotinib...
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203530109