A new study identifies SPRY4 as a tumor suppressor in acute myeloid leukemia and shows that loss of SPRY4 acts as an alternative mechanism to drive RAS signaling. In addition, a paradigm of cooperativity in which combined loss of multiple negative regulators of the RAS pathway supplants the need for RAS mutations is suggested.
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Lock, R., Cichowski, K. Loss of negative regulators amplifies RAS signaling. Nat Genet 47, 426–427 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3299
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