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Front Pharmacol. 2021 Mar 25;12:637098. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.637098. eCollection 2021.

The Tubulin Inhibitor VERU-111 in Combination With Vemurafenib Provides an Effective Treatment of Vemurafenib-Resistant A375 Melanoma.

Frontiers in pharmacology

Hongmei Cui, Qinghui Wang, Duane D Miller, Wei Li

Affiliations

  1. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.
  2. Institute of Toxicology, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.

PMID: 33841154 PMCID: PMC8027488 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2021.637098

Abstract

Melanoma is one of the deadliest skin cancers having a five-year survival rate around 15-20%. An overactivated MAPK/AKT pathway is well-established in BRAF mutant melanoma. Vemurafenib (Vem) was the first FDA-approved BRAF inhibitor and gained great clinical success in treating late-stage melanoma. However, most patients develop acquired resistance to Vem within 6-9 months. Therefore, developing a new treatment strategy to overcome Vem-resistance is highly significant. Our previous study reported that the combination of a tubulin inhibitor ABI-274 with Vem showed a significant synergistic effect to sensitize Vem-resistant melanoma both

Copyright © 2021 Cui, Wang, Miller and Li.

Keywords: ERK; VERU-111; akt; melanoma; skp2; vemurafenib-resistance

Conflict of interest statement

WL is a scientific consultant for Veru, Inc. who licensed VERU-111 for commercial development. WL and DM also report receiving sponsored research agreement grants from Veru, Inc. The remaining authors

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