Breast cancer treatments: updates and new challenges

A Burguin, C Diorio, F Durocher - Journal of personalized medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequent cancer diagnosed in women worldwide. This
heterogeneous disease can be classified into four molecular subtypes (luminal A, luminal B …

Mechanisms of PARP inhibitor sensitivity and resistance

AD D'Andrea - DNA repair, 2018 - Elsevier
BRCA1 and BRCA2 deficient tumor cells are sensitive to inhibitors of Poly ADP Ribose
Polymerase (PARP1) through the mechanism of synthetic lethality. Several PARP inhibitors …

Accurate classification of BRCA1 variants with saturation genome editing

GM Findlay, RM Daza, B Martin, MD Zhang, AP Leith… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Variants of uncertain significance fundamentally limit the clinical utility of genetic information.
The challenge they pose is epitomized by BRCA1, a tumour suppressor gene in which …

The antitumorigenic roles of BRCA1–BARD1 in DNA repair and replication

M Tarsounas, P Sung - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
The tumour suppressor breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein (BRCA1) promotes DNA
double-strand break (DSB) repair by homologous recombination and protects DNA …

Prediction of DNA repair inhibitor response in short-term patient-derived ovarian cancer organoids

SJ Hill, B Decker, EA Roberts, NS Horowitz, MG Muto… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Based on genomic analysis, 50% of high-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSC) are
predicted to have DNA repair defects. Whether this substantial subset of HGSCs actually …

Alternate therapeutic pathways for PARP inhibitors and potential mechanisms of resistance

DS Kim, CV Camacho, WL Kraus - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Homologous recombination (HR) repair deficiency impairs the proper maintenance of
genomic stability, thus rendering cancer cells vulnerable to loss or inhibition of DNA repair …

Ubiquitin ligases in oncogenic transformation and cancer therapy

D Senft, J Qi, ZA Ronai - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The cellular response to external stress signals and DNA damage depends on the activity of
ubiquitin ligases (E3s), which regulate numerous cellular processes, including homeostasis …

Homologous recombination deficiency: exploiting the fundamental vulnerability of ovarian cancer

PA Konstantinopoulos, R Ceccaldi, GI Shapiro… - Cancer discovery, 2015 - AACR
Approximately 50% of epithelial ovarian cancers (EOC) exhibit defective DNA repair via
homologous recombination (HR) due to genetic and epigenetic alterations of HR pathway …

Genetically engineered mouse models in oncology research and cancer medicine

K Kersten, KE de Visser, MH van Miltenburg… - EMBO molecular …, 2017 - embopress.org
Genetically engineered mouse models (GEMM s) have contributed significantly to the field of
cancer research. In contrast to cancer cell inoculation models, GEMM s develop de novo …

Homologous recombination and human health: the roles of BRCA1, BRCA2, and associated proteins

R Prakash, Y Zhang, W Feng… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Homologous recombination (HR) is a major pathway for the repair of DNA double-strand
breaks in mammalian cells, the defining step of which is homologous strand exchange …