title: How to fool a wonder drug: truncate and dimerize.
abstract: In a recent paper, Poulikakos et al. describe a new and potentially common mechanism whereby melanomas develop resistance to the BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib by expressing truncated forms of BRAF(V600E) that can dimerize in the absence of activated RAS. Will it be possible to block this with improved BRAF inhibitor design?
authors.affiliation: Signal Transduction Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, UK.
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Molina-Arcas
authors.forename: Julian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Downward