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• Synthetic lethal interaction of combined BCL-XL and MEK inhibition promotes tumor regressions in KRAS mutant cancer models.

  Corcoran RB, Cheng KA, Hata AN, Faber AC, Ebi H, Coffee EM, Greninger P, Brown RD, Godfrey JT, Cohoon TJ, Song Y, Lifshits E, Hung KE, Shioda T, Dias-Santagata D, Singh A, Settleman J, Benes CH, Mino-Kenudson M, Wong KK, Engelman JA. Corcoran RB, et al. Cancer Cell. 2013 Jan 14;23(1):121-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2012.11.007. Epub 2012 Dec 13. Cancer Cell. 2013. PMID: 23245996 Free PMC article.
• ABT-199, a potent and selective BCL-2 inhibitor, achieves antitumor activity while sparing platelets.

  Souers AJ, Leverson JD, Boghaert ER, Ackler SL, Catron ND, Chen J, Dayton BD, Ding H, Enschede SH, Fairbrother WJ, Huang DC, Hymowitz SG, Jin S, Khaw SL, Kovar PJ, Lam LT, Lee J, Maecker HL, Marsh KC, Mason KD, Mitten MJ, Nimmer PM, Oleksijew A, Park CH, Park CM, Phillips DC, Roberts AW, Sampath D, Seymour JF, Smith ML, Sullivan GM, Tahir SK, Tse C, Wendt MD, Xiao Y, Xue JC, Zhang H, Humerickhouse RA, Rosenberg SH, Elmore SW. Souers AJ, et al. Nat Med. 2013 Feb;19(2):202-8. doi: 10.1038/nm.3048. Epub 2013 Jan 6. Nat Med. 2013. PMID: 23291630