Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Overcoming EGFR G724S-mediated osimertinib resistance through unique binding characteristics of second-generation EGFR inhibitors

  • Jana Fassunke,
  • Fabienne Müller,
  • Marina Keul,
  • Sebastian Michels,
  • Marcel A. Dammert,
  • Anna Schmitt,
  • Dennis Plenker,
  • Jonas Lategahn,
  • Carina Heydt,
  • Johannes Brägelmann,
  • Hannah L. Tumbrink,
  • Yannic Alber,
  • Sebastian Klein,
  • Alena Heimsoeth,
  • Ilona Dahmen,
  • Rieke N. Fischer,
  • Matthias Scheffler,
  • Michaela A. Ihle,
  • Vanessa Priesner,
  • Andreas H. Scheel,
  • Svenja Wagener,
  • Anna Kron,
  • Konrad Frank,
  • Katia Garbert,
  • Thorsten Persigehl,
  • Michael Püsken,
  • Stefan Haneder,
  • Bernhard Schaaf,
  • Ernst Rodermann,
  • Walburga Engel-Riedel,
  • Enriqueta Felip,
  • Egbert F. Smit,
  • Sabine Merkelbach-Bruse,
  • H. Christian Reinhardt,
  • Stefan M. Kast,
  • Jürgen Wolf,
  • Daniel Rauh,
  • Reinhard Büttner,
  • Martin L. Sos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07078-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Acquired resistance to targeted drugs remains a major clinical challenge in lung adenocarcinoma patients. Here, the authors show how the acquired EGFR G724S mutation induces resistance to third-generation EGFR inhibitors and why the mutant kinase remains susceptible to second-generation inhibitors.