Targeting telomeres: advances in telomere maintenance mechanism-specific cancer therapies

J Gao, HA Pickett - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer cells establish replicative immortality by activating a telomere-maintenance
mechanism (TMM), be it telomerase or the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) …

Break-induced replication: the where, the why, and the how

J Kramara, B Osia, A Malkova - Trends in Genetics, 2018 - cell.com
Break-induced replication (BIR) is a pathway that repairs one-ended double-strand breaks
(DSBs). For decades, yeast model systems offered the only opportunities to study eukaryotic …

Defining the human C2H2 zinc finger degrome targeted by thalidomide analogs through CRBN

QL Sievers, G Petzold, RD Bunker, A Renneville… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Thalidomide, lenalidomide, and pomalidomide are clinically approved
therapies for the treatment of multiple myeloma and other hematologic malignancies. These …

DNA repair network analysis reveals shieldin as a key regulator of NHEJ and PARP inhibitor sensitivity

R Gupta, K Somyajit, T Narita, E Maskey, A Stanlie… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Repair of damaged DNA is essential for maintaining genome integrity and for preventing
genome-instability-associated diseases, such as cancer. By combining proximity labeling …

Delineating the role of cooperativity in the design of potent PROTACs for BTK

A Zorba, C Nguyen, Y Xu, J Starr… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are heterobifunctional small molecules that
simultaneously bind to a target protein and an E3 ligase, thereby leading to ubiquitination …

Targeting the BRCA1/2 deficient cancer with PARP inhibitors: Clinical outcomes and mechanistic insights

A Ragupathi, M Singh, AM Perez… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
BRCA1 and BRCA2 play a critical role in a variety of molecular processes related to DNA
metabolism, including homologous recombination and mediating the replication stress …

ALTernative telomere maintenance and cancer

RL Dilley, RA Greenberg - Trends in cancer, 2015 - cell.com
Activation of a telomere maintenance mechanism (TMM) is permissive for replicative
immortality and a hallmark of human cancer. While most cancers rely on reactivation of …

Alternative lengthening of telomeres: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic outlooks

JM Zhang, L Zou - Cell & Bioscience, 2020 - Springer
To escape replicative senescence, cancer cells have to overcome telomere attrition during
DNA replication. Most of cancers rely on telomerase to extend and maintain telomeres, but 4 …

Screen identifies bromodomain protein ZMYND8 in chromatin recognition of transcription-associated DNA damage that promotes homologous recombination

F Gong, LY Chiu, B Cox, F Aymard… - Genes & …, 2015 - genesdev.cshlp.org
How chromatin shapes pathways that promote genome–epigenome integrity in response to
DNA damage is an issue of crucial importance. We report that human bromodomain (BRD) …

Alternative lengthening of telomeres: DNA repair pathways converge

AP Sobinoff, HA Pickett - Trends in Genetics, 2017 - cell.com
Telomeres shorten during each cellular division, with cumulative attrition resulting in
telomeric damage and replicative senescence. Bypass of replicative senescence …