Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Brain metastatic outgrowth and osimertinib resistance are potentiated by RhoA in EGFR-mutant lung cancer

  • Sally J. Adua,
  • Anna Arnal-Estapé,
  • Minghui Zhao,
  • Bowen Qi,
  • Zongzhi Z. Liu,
  • Carolyn Kravitz,
  • Heather Hulme,
  • Nicole Strittmatter,
  • Francesc López-Giráldez,
  • Sampada Chande,
  • Alexandra E. Albert,
  • Mary-Ann Melnick,
  • Bomiao Hu,
  • Katerina Politi,
  • Veronica Chiang,
  • Nicola Colclough,
  • Richard J. A. Goodwin,
  • Darren Cross,
  • Paul Smith,
  • Don X. Nguyen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34889-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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While EGFR-targeted therapies have clinical benefit, drug-resistant brain metastases present a major obstacle. Here, the authors identify a genetic signature in brain metastatic lesions associated with osimertinib resistance and find RhoA to have an important role in the resulting phenotype.