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 …

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) …

[HTML][HTML] Telomeres: history, health, and hallmarks of aging

D Chakravarti, KA LaBella, RA DePinho - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The escalating social and economic burden of an aging world population has placed aging
research at center stage. The hallmarks of aging comprise diverse molecular mechanisms …

Walking a tightrope: the complex balancing act of R-loops in genome stability

JR Brickner, JL Garzon, KA Cimprich - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Although transcription is an essential cellular process, it is paradoxically also a well-
recognized cause of genomic instability. R-loops, non-B DNA structures formed when …

State-of-the-art strategies for targeting the DNA damage response in cancer

PG Pilié, C Tang, GB Mills, TA Yap - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2019 - nature.com
Genomic instability is a key hallmark of cancer that arises owing to defects in the DNA
damage response (DDR) and/or increased replication stress. These alterations promote the …

Clinical sequencing of soft tissue and bone sarcomas delineates diverse genomic landscapes and potential therapeutic targets

BA Nacev, F Sanchez-Vega, SA Smith… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The genetic, biologic, and clinical heterogeneity of sarcomas poses a challenge for the
identification of therapeutic targets, clinical research, and advancing patient care. Because …

TERRA and RAD51AP1 promote alternative lengthening of telomeres through an R-to D-loop switch

T Yadav, JM Zhang, J Ouyang, W Leung, A Simoneau… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT), a telomerase-independent process maintaining
telomeres, is mediated by break-induced replication (BIR). RAD52 promotes ALT by …

Long noncoding RNAs in cancer pathways

AM Schmitt, HY Chang - Cancer cell, 2016 - cell.com
Genome-wide cancer mutation analyses are revealing an extensive landscape of functional
mutations within the noncoding genome, with profound effects on the expression of long …

Molecular profiling reveals biologically discrete subsets and pathways of progression in diffuse glioma

M Ceccarelli, FP Barthel, TM Malta, TS Sabedot… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Therapy development for adult diffuse glioma is hindered by incomplete knowledge of
somatic glioma driving alterations and suboptimal disease classification. We defined the …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive molecular characterization of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma

L Fishbein, I Leshchiner, V Walter, L Danilova… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
We report a comprehensive molecular characterization of pheochromocytomas and
paragangliomas (PCCs/PGLs), a rare tumor type. Multi-platform integration revealed that …