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ReviewActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B2014

The pharmacological impact of ATP-binding cassette drug transporters on vemurafenib-based therapy.

Chung-Pu Wu, Suresh V Ambudkar

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Review in Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Chung-Pu WuDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan ; Molecular Medicine Research Center, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan ; Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan.
Suresh V AmbudkarLaboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Center for Cancer Research · USChang Gung University · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer and one of the most common cancers in the world. Advanced melanoma is often resistant to conventional therapies and has high potential for metastasis and low survival rates. Vemurafenib is a small molecule inhibitor of the BRAF serine-threonine kinase recently approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration to treat patients with metastatic and unresectable melanomas that carry an activating BRAF (V600E) mutation. Many clinical trials evaluating other therapeutic uses of vemurafenib are still ongoing. The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are membrane proteins with important physiological and pharmacological roles. Collectively, they transport and regulate levels of physiological substrates such as lipids, porphyrins and sterols. Some of them also remove xenobiotics and limit the oral bioavailability and distribution of many chemotherapeutics. The overexpression of three major ABC drug transporters is the most common mechanism for acquired resistance to anticancer drugs. In this review, we highlight some of the recent findings related to the effect of ABC drug transporters such as ABCB1 and ABCG2 on the oral bioavailability of vemurafenib, problems associated with treating melanoma brain metastases and the development of acquired resistance to vemurafenib in cancers harboring the BRAF (V600E) mutation.

Indexed as

ABC, ATP-binding cassetteABC transporterAML, acute myeloid leukemiaBBB, blood–brain barrierCNS, central nervous systemCSCs, cancer stem cellsDrug resistanceGI, gastrointestinalMAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinaseMDR, multidrug resistanceMelanomaNBDs, nucleotide-binding domainsPFS, longer progression-free survivalP-glycoproteinPKIs, protein kinase inhibitorsTKIs, tyrosine kinase inhibitorsTMDs, transmembrane domainsVemurafenib

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PMID26579371
PMCPMC4590304
OpenAlexW2019622950

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