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ArticleJournal of cellular and molecular medicine2021

Simultaneous blocking of the pan-RAF and S100B pathways as a synergistic therapeutic strategy against malignant melanoma.

Ke-Jia Wu, Shih-Hsin Ho, Chun Wu, Hui-Min D Wang, Dik-Lung Ma, Chung-Hang Leung

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Article in Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Predictive Performance of Serum S100BFrontiers in oncology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Ke-Jia WuState Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China.
Shih-Hsin HoState Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Chun WuDepartment of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
Hui-Min D WangGraduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Dik-Lung MaDepartment of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
Chung-Hang LeungState Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2988-3786
Hong Kong Baptist University · HKUniversity of Macau · MOHarbin Institute of Technology · CNKaohsiung Medical University · TW

Funding

Collaborative Research Fund C5026-16GHealth and Medical Research Fund HMRF/14150561Hong Kong Baptist University FRG2/17-18/003Interdisciplinary Research Clusters Matching Scheme RC-IRCs/17-18/03Interdisciplinary Research Matching Scheme RC-IRMS/16-17/03National Natural Science Foundation of China 21575121National Natural Science Foundation of China 21775131Science and Technology Development Fund, Macau SAR 0072/2018/A2Science and Technology Development Fund, Macau SAR 084/2016/A2SKLEBA and HKBU Strategic Development Fund SKLP_1718_P04University of Macau MYRG2018-00187-ICMS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melanoma is a very aggressive form of skin cancer. Although BRAF inhibitors have been utilized for melanoma therapy, advanced melanoma patients still face a low five-year survival rate. Recent studies have shown that CRAF can compensate for BRAF depletion via regulating DNA synthesis to remain melanoma proliferation. Hence, targeting CRAF either alone or in combination with other protein pathways is a potential avenue for melanoma therapy. Based on our previously reported CRAF-selective inhibitor for renal cancer therapy, we have herein discovered an analogue (complex 1) from the reported CRAF library suppresses melanoma cell proliferation and melanoma tumour growth in murine models of melanoma via blocking the S100B and RAF pathways. Intriguingly, we discovered that inhibiting BRAF together with S100B exerts a novel synergistic effect to significantly restore p53 transcription activity and inhibit melanoma cell proliferation, whereas blocking BRAF together with CRAF only had an additive effect. We envision that blocking the pan-RAF and S100B/p53 pathways might be a novel synergistic strategy for melanoma therapy and that complex 1 is a potential inhibitor against melanoma via blocking the pan-RAF and S100B pathways.

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AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationDisease Models, AnimalDNA ReplicationFemaleHumansMAP Kinase Signaling SystemMelanomaMiceProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-rafS100 Calcium Binding Protein beta SubunitSignal TransductionXenograft Model Antitumor AssaysAntineoplastic AgentsProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-rafS100B protein, humanS100 Calcium Binding Protein beta Subunitdrug discoverymalignant melanomapan-RAFS100B-p53 interactionsynergistic

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PMID33377602
PMCPMC7882986
OpenAlexW3114936305

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