POLE/POLD1 mutation and tumor immunotherapy

X Ma, L Dong, X Liu, K Ou, L Yang - Journal of Experimental & Clinical …, 2022 - Springer
POLE and POLD1 encode the catalytic and proofreading subunits of DNA polymerase ε and
polymerase δ, and play important roles in DNA replication and proofreading. POLE/POLD1 …

Mechanisms underlying mutational signatures in human cancers

T Helleday, S Eshtad, S Nik-Zainal - Nature reviews genetics, 2014 - nature.com
The collective somatic mutations observed in a cancer are the outcome of multiple
mutagenic processes that have been operative over the lifetime of a patient. Each process …

Analysis of 100,000 human cancer genomes reveals the landscape of tumor mutational burden

ZR Chalmers, CF Connelly, D Fabrizio, L Gay, SM Ali… - Genome medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background High tumor mutational burden (TMB) is an emerging biomarker of sensitivity to
immune checkpoint inhibitors and has been shown to be more significantly associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive analysis of hypermutation in human cancer

BB Campbell, N Light, D Fabrizio, M Zatzman, F Fuligni… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
We present an extensive assessment of mutation burden through sequencing analysis of>
81,000 tumors from pediatric and adult patients, including tumors with hypermutation caused …

Human DNA polymerase ε is a source of C> T mutations at CpG dinucleotides

M Tomkova, MJ McClellan, G Crevel, AM Shahid… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
C-to-T transitions in CpG dinucleotides are the most prevalent mutations in human cancers
and genetic diseases. These mutations have been attributed to deamination of 5 …

A panoply of errors: polymerase proofreading domain mutations in cancer

E Rayner, IC Van Gool, C Palles, SE Kearsey… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Although it has long been recognized that the exonucleolytic proofreading activity intrinsic to
the replicative DNA polymerases Pol δ and Pol ε is essential for faithful replication of DNA …

Landscape of tumor mutation load, mismatch repair deficiency, and PD-L1 expression in a large patient cohort of gastrointestinal cancers

ME Salem, A Puccini, A Grothey, D Raghavan… - Molecular Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
The efficacy of immunotherapy varies widely among different gastrointestinal cancers.
Response to immune checkpoint inhibitors is shown to correlate with tumor mutation load …

Prognostic Significance of POLE Proofreading Mutations in Endometrial Cancer

DN Church, E Stelloo, RA Nout… - Journal of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background: Current risk stratification in endometrial cancer (EC) results in frequent over-
and underuse of adjuvant therapy, and may be improved by novel biomarkers. We …

Exonuclease mutations in DNA polymerase epsilon reveal replication strand specific mutation patterns and human origins of replication

E Shinbrot, EE Henninger, N Weinhold… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Tumors with somatic mutations in the proofreading exonuclease domain of DNA polymerase
epsilon (POLE-exo*) exhibit a novel mutator phenotype, with markedly elevated TCT→ TAT …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging critical roles of Fe–S clusters in DNA replication and repair

JO Fuss, CL Tsai, JP Ishida, JA Tainer - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2015 - Elsevier
Fe–S clusters are partners in the origin of life that predate cells, acetyl-CoA metabolism,
DNA, and the RNA world. The double helix solved the mystery of DNA replication by base …