mTOR inhibition specifically sensitizes colorectal cancers with KRAS or BRAF mutations to BCL-2/BCL-XL inhibition by suppressing MCL-1.

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Published in Cancer Discov on October 25, 2013

Authors

Anthony C Faber1, Erin M Coffee, Carlotta Costa, Anahita Dastur, Hiromichi Ebi, Aaron N Hata, Alan T Yeo, Elena J Edelman, Youngchul Song, Ah Ting Tam, Jessica L Boisvert, Randy J Milano, Jatin Roper, David P Kodack, Rakesh K Jain, Ryan B Corcoran, Miguel N Rivera, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Kenneth E Hung, Cyril H Benes, Jeffrey A Engelman

Author Affiliations

1: 1Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; 2Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; 3Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center; 4Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; and 5Radiation Oncology, Steele Lab for Tumor Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts.

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