DNA damage/repair management in cancers

JF Alhmoud, JF Woolley… - Advances in Medical …, 2021 - api.taylorfrancis.com
DNA damage can alter nucleotide sequences and lead to expression of dysfunctional
proteins that impact normal cellular physiology. Sources of DNA damage can be …

DNA damage and the balance between survival and death in cancer biology

WP Roos, AD Thomas, B Kaina - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
DNA is vulnerable to damage resulting from endogenous metabolites, environmental and
dietary carcinogens, some anti-inflammatory drugs, and genotoxic cancer therapeutics …

DNA repair mechanisms in dividing and non-dividing cells

T Iyama, DM Wilson III - DNA repair, 2013 - Elsevier
DNA damage created by endogenous or exogenous genotoxic agents can exist in multiple
forms, and if allowed to persist, can promote genome instability and directly lead to various …

Balancing repair and tolerance of DNA damage caused by alkylating agents

D Fu, JA Calvo, LD Samson - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2012 - nature.com
Alkylating agents constitute a major class of frontline chemotherapeutic drugs that inflict
cytotoxic DNA damage as their main mode of action, in addition to collateral mutagenic …

DNA damage-induced cell death: from specific DNA lesions to the DNA damage response and apoptosis

WP Roos, B Kaina - Cancer letters, 2013 - Elsevier
DNA damaging agents are potent inducers of cell death triggered by apoptosis. Since these
agents induce a plethora of different DNA lesions, it is firstly important to identify the specific …

Targeting DNA repair pathway in cancer: Mechanisms and clinical application

M Wang, S Chen, D Ao - MedComm, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decades, the growing understanding on DNA damage response (DDR)
pathways has broadened the therapeutic landscape in oncology. It is becoming increasingly …

Wnt/β-catenin pathway regulates MGMT gene expression in cancer and inhibition of Wnt signalling prevents chemoresistance

M Wickström, C Dyberg, J Milosevic, C Einvik… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The DNA repair enzyme O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) is commonly
overexpressed in cancers and is implicated in the development of chemoresistance. The …

MGMT status as a clinical biomarker in glioblastoma

M Butler, L Pongor, YT Su, L Xi, M Raffeld, M Quezado… - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor. Although current standard
therapy extends median survival to~ 15 months, most patients do not have a sustained …

θ-Nanopipette for single-cell resistive-pulse profiling of DNA repair proteins accompanied by drug evaluation

X Zhang, J Song, Z Li, YW Zheng, WW Zhao… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Single-cell analysis of the DNA repair protein is important but remains unachieved.
Exploration of nanopipettte technologies in single-cell electroanalysis has recently seen …

DNA repair in personalized brain cancer therapy with temozolomide and nitrosoureas

B Kaina, M Christmann - DNA repair, 2019 - Elsevier
Alkylating agents have been used since the 60ties in brain cancer chemotherapy. Their
target is the DNA and, although the DNA of normal and cancer cells is damaged …