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Inhibition of BCL2 family proteins overcomes acquired resistance to standard of care BRAF and MEK inhibitors in a subset of BRAFV600E-mutant melanomas

GSE298507 Homo sapiens (human) RNA-seq (gene expression) 58 samples Submitted 2026/03/30 Platform GPL11154
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · human · 58 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Topic
MelanomaThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
58 samples: 58 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groupsGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Summary (written by the submitters)
Despite recent advances, a significant number of melanoma patients treated with BRAF and MEK targeted therapies (BRAFi/MEKi) or immunotherapies develop progressive disease. Anti-apoptotic BCL family proteins have been shown to promote de novo resistance to a number of therapies, including single-agent BRAF inhibitors in BRAF-mutant melanomas.
Read the full summary ↓
In this study, in vivo testing of a collection of BRAFi- or BRAFi/MEKi treatment-refractory melanoma patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models showed that combining BCL2 inhibitors (BCL2i, navitoclax or venetoclax) with BRAFi and MEKi surprisingly induced potent regressions of a significant subset of these treatment-refractory PDXs. High basal BCL2 expression correlated with improved sensitivity, while high basal MCL1 predicted resistance to BCL2i combination with BRAFi/MEKi. Studies with MCL1 overexpression functionally validated its role in resistance. Further, combination of BRAFi/MEKi with a MCL1 inhibitor (MCL1i) counteracted the resistance and also decreased MCL1i-associated cardiotoxicity markers.
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE298507_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1269569. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
58 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groups

Any grouping that defines a comparison lives in the sample characteristics, which GEO records separately from the titles.

How we read this: Read from 58 sample titles: 58 distinct titles with little repetition. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

Samples in this study

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