‘Undruggable’ mutation meets its match: Six-year effort yields first drug to target important cancer gene See also: Drug discovery: Pocket of opportunity[subscription required] Excerpt: “.,.the non-mutated protein is the beating heart of cell signalling, but mutated versions are the villainous masterminds of malignancies.” and see K-Ras(G12C) inhibitors allosterically control GTP affinity and effector interactions [subscription required] Excerpt: “…initial evaluation of our compounds in lung cancer cell lines suggests allele-specific impairment of K-Ras function.” My comment: 1) They ignored any aspect…