"RAF" neighborhood

Autor(en)

Botond Cseh, Eszter Doma, Manuela Baccarini

Abstrakt

The Raf/Mek/Erk signaling pathway, activated downstream of Ras primarily to promote proliferation, represents the best studied of the evolutionary conserved MAPK cascades. The investigation of the pathway has continued unabated since its discovery roughly 30 years ago. In the last decade, however, the identification of unexpected in vivo functions of pathway components, as well as the discovery of Raf mutations in human cancer, the ensuing quest for inhibitors, and the efforts to understand their mechanism of action, have boosted interest tremendously. From this large body of work, protein-protein interaction has emerged as a recurrent, crucial theme. This review focuses on the role of protein complexes in the regulation of the Raf/Mek/Erk pathway and in its cross-talk with other signaling cascades. Mapping these interactions and finding a way of exploiting them for therapeutic purposes is one of the challenges of future molecule-targeted therapy.

Organisation(en)

Department für Mikrobiologie, Immunbiologie und Genetik

Journal

FEBS Letters

Band

588

Seiten

2398-2406

Anzahl der Seiten

9

ISSN

0014-5793

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2014.06.025

Publikationsdatum

08-2014

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

106013 Genetik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 – Gesundheit und Wohlergehen

Link zum Portal

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