Targeting replication stress in cancer therapy

AABA da Costa, D Chowdhury, GI Shapiro… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Replication stress is a major cause of genomic instability and a crucial vulnerability of
cancer cells. This vulnerability can be therapeutically targeted by inhibiting kinases that …

DNA damage response signaling pathways and targets for radiotherapy sensitization in cancer

RX Huang, PK Zhou - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Radiotherapy is one of the most common countermeasures for treating a wide range of
tumors. However, the radioresistance of cancer cells is still a major limitation for …

Targeting Wee1 kinase as a therapeutic approach in Hematological Malignancies

S Vakili-Samiani, AT Jalil, WK Abdelbasset… - DNA repair, 2021 - Elsevier
Hematologic malignancies include various diseases that develop from hematopoietic stem
cells of bone marrow or lymphatic organs. Currently, conventional DNA-damage-based …

New therapeutic strategies to treat human cancers expressing mutant p53 proteins

G Blandino, S Di Agostino - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - Springer
The tumor suppressor p53 plays a critical role to preserve DNA fidelity from diverse insults
through the regulation of cell-cycle checkpoints, DNA repair, senescence and apoptosis …

Dose escalation trial of the Wee1 inhibitor adavosertib (AZD1775) in combination with gemcitabine and radiation for patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer

KC Cuneo, MA Morgan, V Sahai… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE AZD1775 (adavosertib) is an inhibitor of the Wee1 kinase. In this study, we built
on our preclinical studies to evaluate the safety and efficacy of AZD1775 in combination with …

Molecular pathways: targeting the protein kinase Wee1 in cancer

JJJ Geenen, JHM Schellens - Clinical Cancer Research, 2017 - AACR
Wee1 is a protein kinase that regulates the G2 checkpoint and prevents entry into mitosis in
response to DNA damage. Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) are a family of 14 …

PARP1 trapping and DNA replication stress enhance radiosensitization with combined WEE1 and PARP inhibitors

LA Parsels, D Karnak, JD Parsels, Q Zhang… - Molecular Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
KRAS mutations in non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cause increased levels of DNA
damage and replication stress, suggesting that inhibition of the DNA damage response …

Targeting the DNA damage response for cancer therapy by inhibiting the kinase Wee1

AB Bukhari, GK Chan, AM Gamper - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cancer cells typically heavily rely on the G2/M checkpoint to survive endogenous and
exogenous DNA damage, such as genotoxic stress due to genome instability or radiation …

Relationship between p53 status and the bioeffect of ionizing radiation

X Kong, D Yu, Z Wang, S Li - Oncology letters, 2021 - spandidos-publications.com
Radiotherapy is widely used in the clinical treatment of cancer patients and it may be used
alone or in combination with surgery or chemotherapy to inhibit tumor development …

[HTML][HTML] Role of long noncoding RNA-mediated competing endogenous RNA regulatory network in hepatocellular carcinoma

ZS Niu, WH Wang, XN Dong - World journal of gastroenterology, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) are noncoding RNAs
(ncRNAs) that occupy over 90% of the human genome, and their main function is to directly …