Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Gilteritinib overcomes lorlatinib resistance in ALK-rearranged cancer

  • Hayato Mizuta,
  • Koutaroh Okada,
  • Mitsugu Araki,
  • Jun Adachi,
  • Ai Takemoto,
  • Justyna Kutkowska,
  • Kohei Maruyama,
  • Noriko Yanagitani,
  • Tomoko Oh-hara,
  • Kana Watanabe,
  • Keiichi Tamai,
  • Luc Friboulet,
  • Kazuhiro Katayama,
  • Biao Ma,
  • Yoko Sasakura,
  • Yukari Sagae,
  • Mutsuko Kukimoto-Niino,
  • Mikako Shirouzu,
  • Satoshi Takagi,
  • Siro Simizu,
  • Makoto Nishio,
  • Yasushi Okuno,
  • Naoya Fujita,
  • Ryohei Katayama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21396-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Resistance to ALK inhibitors such as lorlatinib often arise due to on-target mutations. Here, the authors show the multi-kinase inhibitor gilteritinib is effective against different mutations that arise during lorlatinib in ALK fusion positive lung cancer to cause resistance.