Targeting DNA damage response pathways in cancer

FJ Groelly, M Fawkes, RA Dagg, AN Blackford… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cells have evolved a complex network of biochemical pathways, collectively known as the
DNA damage response (DDR), to prevent detrimental mutations from being passed on to …

Understanding and overcoming resistance to PARP inhibitors in cancer therapy

MP Dias, SC Moser, S Ganesan… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
Developing novel targeted anticancer therapies is a major goal of current research. The use
of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors in patients with homologous …

STING agonism reprograms tumor-associated macrophages and overcomes resistance to PARP inhibition in BRCA1-deficient models of breast cancer

Q Wang, JS Bergholz, L Ding, Z Lin, SK Kabraji… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
PARP inhibitors (PARPi) have drastically changed the treatment landscape of advanced
ovarian tumors with BRCA mutations. However, the impact of this class of inhibitors in …

Pharmacogenomics: driving personalized medicine

W Sadee, D Wang, K Hartmann, AE Toland… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Personalized medicine tailors therapies, disease prevention, and health maintenance to the
individual, with pharmacogenomics serving as a key tool to improve outcomes and prevent …

Neoantigens: promising targets for cancer therapy

N Xie, G Shen, W Gao, Z Huang, C Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in neoantigen research have accelerated the development and regulatory
approval of tumor immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, adoptive cell therapy and …

Molecular tumour boards—current and future considerations for precision oncology

AM Tsimberidou, M Kahle, HH Vo, MA Baysal… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past 15 years, rapid progress has been made in developmental therapeutics,
especially regarding the use of matched targeted therapies against specific oncogenic …

PARP inhibitors: enhancing efficacy through rational combinations

D Bhamidipati, JI Haro-Silerio, TA Yap… - British journal of cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) have significantly changed the treatment
landscape for tumours harbouring defects in genes involved in homologous repair (HR) …

Synthetic lethality in cancer therapeutics: the next generation

J Setton, M Zinda, N Riaz, D Durocher, M Zimmermann… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Synthetic lethality (SL) provides a conceptual framework for tackling targets that are not
classically “druggable,” including loss-of-function mutations in tumor suppressor genes …

Biomarkers associating with PARP inhibitor benefit in prostate cancer in the TOPARP-B trial

S Carreira, N Porta, S Arce-Gallego, G Seed… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
PARP inhibitors are approved for treating advanced prostate cancers (APC) with various
defective DNA repair genes; however, further studies to clinically qualify predictive …

BRCAness, DNA gaps, and gain and loss of PARP inhibitor–induced synthetic lethality

X Li, L Zou - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2024 - jci.org
Mutations in the tumor-suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 resulting in BRCA1/2
deficiency are frequently identified in breast, ovarian, prostate, pancreatic, and other …