Position-and orientation-specific enhancement of topoisomerase I cleavage complexes by triplex DNA structures

S Antony, PB Arimondo, JS Sun… - Nucleic acids …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Topoisomerase I (Top1) activities are sensitive to various endogenous base modifications,
and anticancer drugs including the natural alkaloid camptothecin. Here, we show that triple …

Enhancement of camptothecin-induced topoisomerase I cleavage complexes by the acetaldehyde adduct N2-ethyl-2′-deoxyguanosine

S Antony, JA Theruvathu, PJ Brooks… - Nucleic acids …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The activity of DNA topoisomerase I (Top1), an enzyme that regulates DNA topology, is
impacted by DNA structure alterations and by the anticancer alkaloid camptothecin (CPT) …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of topoisomerase I cleavage activity by thiol-reactive compounds: importance of vicinal cysteines 504 and 505

D Montaudon, K Palle, LP Rivory, J Robert… - Journal of biological …, 2007 - ASBMB
DNA topoisomerase I (Top1) is a nuclear enzyme that plays a crucial role in the removal of
DNA supercoiling associated with replication and transcription. It is also the target of the …

Activation of camptothecin derivatives by conjugation to triple helix-forming oligonucleotides

PB Arimondo, GS Laco, CJ Thomas, L Halby, D Pez… - Biochemistry, 2005 - ACS Publications
Topoisomerase I (topo I) is a ubiquitous DNA-cleaving enzyme and an important therapeutic
target in cancer chemotherapy. Camptothecins (CPTs) reversibly trap topo I in covalent …

Producing irreversible topoisomerase II-mediated DNA breaks by site-specific Pt (II)-methionine coordination chemistry

YR Wang, SF Chen, CC Wu, YW Liao… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Human type II topoisomerase (Top2) isoforms, hTop2α and hTop2β, are targeted by some of
the most successful anticancer drugs. These drugs induce Top2-mediated DNA cleavage to …

Human topoisomerase I inhibition: docking camptothecin and derivatives into a structure-based active site model

GS Laco, JR Collins, BT Luke, H Kroth, JM Sayer… - Biochemistry, 2002 - ACS Publications
Human topoisomerase I (top1) is an important target for anti-cancer drugs, which include
camptothecin (CPT) and its derivatives. To elucidate top1 inhibition in vitro, we made a …

[HTML][HTML] Mutation of Gly721 alters DNA topoisomerase I active site architecture and sensitivity to camptothecin

M Van Der Merwe, MA Bjornsti - Journal of biological chemistry, 2008 - ASBMB
DNA topoisomerase I (Top1p) catalyzes the relaxation of supercoiled DNA via a concerted
mechanism of DNA strand cleavage and religation. Top1p is the cellular target of the anti …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting DNA topoisomerases: past & future

WH Gmeiner, RCAM van Waardenburg - Cancer Drug Resistance, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aggressive malignancies are characterized by relatively uncontrolled cell proliferation
making them especially reliant on topoisomerase enzymes to enable high rates of DNA …

DNA cleavage assay for the identification of topoisomerase I inhibitors

TS Dexheimer, Y Pommier - Nature protocols, 2008 - nature.com
The inhibition of DNA topoisomerase I (Top1) has proven to be a successful approach in the
design of anticancer agents. However, despite the clinical successes of the camptothecin …

On the structural basis and design guidelines for type II topoisomerase-targeting anticancer drugs

CC Wu, YC Li, YR Wang, TK Li… - Nucleic acids research, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Type II topoisomerases (Top2s) alter DNA topology via the formation of an enzyme–DNA
adduct termed cleavage complex, which harbors a transient double-strand break in one …