Human topoisomerases and their roles in genome stability and organization

Y Pommier, A Nussenzweig, S Takeda… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Human topoisomerases comprise a family of six enzymes: two type IB (TOP1 and
mitochondrial TOP1 (TOP1MT), two type IIA (TOP2A and TOP2B) and two type IA (TOP3A …

PARP inhibitors: clinical relevance, mechanisms of action and tumor resistance

M Rose, JT Burgess, K O'Byrne, DJ Richard… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) family has many essential functions in cellular
processes, including the regulation of transcription, apoptosis and the DNA damage …

The multifaceted roles of PARP1 in DNA repair and chromatin remodelling

A Ray Chaudhuri, A Nussenzweig - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2017 - nature.com
Cells are exposed to various endogenous and exogenous insults that induce DNA damage,
which, if unrepaired, impairs genome integrity and leads to the development of various …

Roles of eukaryotic topoisomerases in transcription, replication and genomic stability

Y Pommier, Y Sun, SN Huang, JL Nitiss - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2016 - nature.com
Topoisomerases introduce transient DNA breaks to relax supercoiled DNA, remove
catenanes and enable chromosome segregation. Human cells encode six topoisomerases …

Laying a trap to kill cancer cells: PARP inhibitors and their mechanisms of action

Y Pommier, MJ O'Connor, J De Bono - Science translational medicine, 2016 - science.org
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors are the first DNA damage response
targeted agents approved for cancer therapy. Here, we focus on their molecular mechanism …

RNA/DNA hybrid interactome identifies DXH9 as a molecular player in transcriptional termination and R-loop-associated DNA damage

A Cristini, M Groh, MS Kristiansen, N Gromak - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
R-loops comprise an RNA/DNA hybrid and displaced single-stranded DNA. They play
important biological roles and are implicated in pathology. Even so, proteins recognizing …

Biomarker-guided development of DNA repair inhibitors

JM Cleary, AJ Aguirre, GI Shapiro, AD D'Andrea - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Anti-cancer drugs targeting the DNA damage response (DDR) exploit genetic or functional
defects in this pathway through synthetic lethal mechanisms. For example, defects in …

DNA damage response in cancer therapy and resistance: challenges and opportunities

D Jurkovicova, CM Neophytou, AČ Gašparović… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Resistance to chemo-and radiotherapy is a common event among cancer patients and a
reason why new cancer therapies and therapeutic strategies need to be in continuous …

Targeting topoisomerase I in the era of precision medicine

A Thomas, Y Pommier - Clinical Cancer Research, 2019 - AACR
Irinotecan and topotecan have been widely used as anticancer drugs for the past 20 years.
Because of their selectivity as topoisomerase I (TOP1) inhibitors that trap TOP1 cleavage …

Mechanisms of DNA–protein crosslink repair

J Stingele, R Bellelli, SJ Boulton - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2017 - nature.com
Covalent DNA–protein crosslinks (DPCs, also known as protein adducts) of topoisomerases
and other proteins with DNA are highly toxic DNA lesions. Of note, chemical agents that …