Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase-Related Cancers: Biological and Therapeutic Implications
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2019) | Viewed by 14464
Special Issue Editor
Interests: oncogenic signaling; noncoding RNA; T lymphoma; ALK tyrosine kinase; targeted therapies; resistance
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Dear Colleagues,
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is associated with oncogenesis in different cancers, such as anaplastic large cell lymphoma, lung cancer, neuroblastoma, and breast cancer, by abnormal fusion of ALK, ALK amplification or overexpression. The full-length ALK receptor tyrosine kinase is a receptor tyrosine kinase, which participates in embryonic nervous system development, but its expression decreases after birth. Upon ligand binding to the extracellular domain, the receptor undergoes dimerization and subsequent autophosphorylation of the intracellular kinase domain. In recent years, ALK inhibitors have been developed for cancer treatment. Tyrosine Kinase inhibitors (TKI) are directed against the ATP-binding site of the catalytic domain, which is highly conserved in ALK. However, the presence of different ALK fusions and also point mutations confer different sensitivity to ALK inhibitors and inevitably drug resistance emerge within a few years in most cases. New strategies are underway to overcome the limitations of current ALK inhibitors.
This Special Issue “Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase-Related Cancers” will cover a selection of recent research topics and current review articles in the field of ALK. Experimental papers, up-to-date review articles, and commentaries are all welcome highlighting anaplastic large cell lymphoma, lung cancer neuroblastoma and breast cancers.
Dr. Fabienne Meggetto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Physiological function
- ALK-expressing cancers
- Molecular pathway, including non-coding RNA
- Genomic and epigenetic alterations
- Immune response
- Therapeutic pathway
- Clinical resistance
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