Table 1.
Some prominent G-protein cancer drivers and their incidence rates in human cancers. K-Ras, RhoA, Rac1 and Cdc42 are depleted in cancer cells treated with PCAIs resulting in loss of cancer progression phenomena such as cell viability, cytoskeletal organization, cell shape, motility and invasion, consistent with loss of their biological functions [24, 46-51].
Protein | Cancer type | Aberrations (type of alteration) | Incidence rates (%) | References |
K-Ras | Pancreatic cancer | Mutation | 90 | [52] |
Non-small cell lung cancer | Mutation | 30-35 | [52] | |
Breast | Mutation | 5 | [53] | |
Colorectal cancer | Mutation | 30-54 | [52, 54] | |
Eleven most common cancers | Mutation | 14.3 | [55] | |
N-Ras | Human cutaneous melanoma | Mutation | 94 | [56] |
Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) | Mutation | 59 | [57] | |
H-Ras | Bladder urothelial | Mutations | 57 | [58] |
RhoA | Colon | Overexpression | 95 | [59] |
Lung | Overexpression | 95 | [59] | |
RAC1 | Breast | Overexpression | 70 | [59, 60] |
Mutation | 50 | [61, 62] | ||
Lung | Overexpression | 50 | [63] | |
Melanoma | Mutation | 5 | [56] | |
Rac2 | Melanoma | Mutation | 10 | [56] |
Cdc42 | Breast | Overexpression | 95 | [59] |
Colorectal | Overexpression | 60 | [64] | |
Melanoma | Mutation | 5 | [56] |