Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28666118›Full record

ReviewCell2017

RAS Proteins and Their Regulators in Human Disease.

Dhirendra K Simanshu, Dwight V Nissley, Frank McCormick

Registry-linked trialOpen access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Cell, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07004244 (Safety and Efficacy of KRAS Vaccine in the Treatment of KRAS-mutant Malignancies), which is not on this map. Cited by 1,117 papers.

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1,117citing papers in PubMed
50.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07004244 phase1recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Safety and Efficacy of KRAS Vaccine in the Treatment of KRAS-mutant Malignancies

TypeinterventionalSponsorSichuan UniversityRan2025 to 2027Enrolled20ConditionsMalignant TumorsArmsKRAS-mutated mRNA vaccine, TORIPALIMAB, Pemetrexed+carboplatin
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1,117 citing papers in PubMed, 1,872 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel KRAS-G12D inhibitors.Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2026
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  5. Ferroptosis in cancer: molecular mechanisms, biological roles, and therapeutic significance.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  18. RAS-targeted therapies for pancreatic cancer.ESMO gastrointestinal oncology · 2026
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1,057 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dhirendra K SimanshuNCI RAS Initiative, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
Dwight V NissleyNCI RAS Initiative, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
Frank McCormickNCI RAS Initiative, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA; Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 1450 3(rd) Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: frank.mccormick@ucsf.edu.
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research · USLeidos Biomedical Research Inc. (United States)

Funding

New Ways of Targeting K-RasR35CA197709 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MCCORMICK, FRANK PATRICK · 2016 to 2022
$6.7M
CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CIntramural NIH HHS Z99 CA999999NCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001ENCI NIH HHS R35 CA197709
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RAS proteins are binary switches, cycling between ON and OFF states during signal transduction. These switches are normally tightly controlled, but in RAS-related diseases, such as cancer, RASopathies, and many psychiatric disorders, mutations in the RAS genes or their regulators render RAS proteins persistently active. The structural basis of the switch and many of the pathways that RAS controls are well known, but the precise mechanisms by which RAS proteins function are less clear. All RAS biology occurs in membranes: a precise understanding of RAS' interaction with membranes is essential to understand RAS action and to intervene in RAS-driven diseases.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell MembraneCongenital AbnormalitiesHumansMental DisordersMutationNeoplasmsPhylogenyras ProteinsSignal TransductionYeastsras ProteinsCRAFTKRASKRAS therapiesNF1RAF1RAS-driven cancerRAS effectorsRAS in the membraneRASopathiesRAS proteins

Identifiers

PMID28666118
PMCPMC5555610
OpenAlexW2732767128

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