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ReviewSeminars in cancer biology2019

New weapons to penetrate the armor: Novel reagents and assays developed at the NCI RAS Initiative to enable discovery of RAS therapeutics.

Dominic Esposito, Andrew G Stephen, Thomas J Turbyville, Matthew Holderfield

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Review in Seminars in cancer biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Blocking C-terminal processing of KRAS4b via a direct covalent attack on the CaaX-box cysteine.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. Luminescence-Based Techniques for KRAS Thermal Stability Monitoring.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  10. Therapeutic strategies to target RAS-mutant cancers.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2018
    Review
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dominic EspositoNCI RAS Initiative, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. PO Box B, Frederick, MD, USA. Electronic address: dom.esposito@nih.gov.
Andrew G StephenNCI RAS Initiative, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. PO Box B, Frederick, MD, USA.
Thomas J TurbyvilleNCI RAS Initiative, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. PO Box B, Frederick, MD, USA.
Matthew HolderfieldNCI RAS Initiative, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. PO Box B, Frederick, MD, USA.
Leidos (United States) · USLeidos Biomedical Research Inc. (United States)

Funding

CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CIntramural NIH HHS Z99 CA999999NCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001ENULL Z99 CA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Development of therapeutic strategies against RAS-driven cancers has been challenging due in part to a lack of understanding of the biology of the system and the ability to design appropriate assays and reagents for targeted drug discovery efforts. Recent developments in the field have opened up new avenues for exploration both through advances in the number and quality of reagents as well as the introduction of novel biochemical and cell-based assay technologies which can be used for high-throughput screening of compound libraries. The reagents and assays developed at the NCI RAS Initiative offer a suite of new weapons that could potentially be used to enable the next generation of RAS drug discovery efforts with the hope of finding novel therapeutics for a target once deemed undruggable.

Indexed as

Drug DiscoveryAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansMutationNeoplasmsProtein BindingQuality Controlras ProteinsSignal TransductionAntineoplastic Agentsras ProteinsAssay developmentBiochemical assaysCell-based assaysDrug discoveryRAS

Identifiers

PMID29432816
PMCPMC6085166
OpenAlexW2792690370

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Registered trials

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