DNA damage repair: historical perspectives, mechanistic pathways and clinical translation for targeted cancer therapy

R Huang, PK Zhou - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic instability is the hallmark of various cancers with the increasing accumulation of
DNA damage. The application of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer treatment is …

Revolutionizing DNA repair research and cancer therapy with CRISPR–Cas screens

SW Awwad, A Serrano-Benitez, JC Thomas… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
All organisms possess molecular mechanisms that govern DNA repair and associated DNA
damage response (DDR) processes. Owing to their relevance to human disease, most …

A genetic map of the response to DNA damage in human cells

M Olivieri, T Cho, A Álvarez-Quilón, K Li… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The response to DNA damage is critical for cellular homeostasis, tumor suppression,
immunity, and gametogenesis. In order to provide an unbiased and global view of the DNA …

The Fanconi anemia pathway in cancer

J Niraj, A Färkkilä, AD D'Andrea - Annual review of cancer …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Fanconi anemia (FA) is a complex genetic disorder characterized by bone marrow failure
(BMF), congenital defects, inability to repair DNA interstrand cross-links (ICLs), and cancer …

The control of DNA repair by the cell cycle

N Hustedt, D Durocher - Nature cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
The correct duplication and transmission of genetic material to daughter cells is the primary
objective of the cell division cycle. DNA replication and chromosome segregation present …

The Fanconi anaemia pathway: new players and new functions

R Ceccaldi, P Sarangi, AD D'Andrea - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2016 - nature.com
The Fanconi anaemia pathway repairs DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) in the genome. Our
understanding of this complex pathway is still evolving, as new components continue to be …

Ubiquitination in disease pathogenesis and treatment

D Popovic, D Vucic, I Dikic - Nature medicine, 2014 - nature.com
Ubiquitination is crucial for a plethora of physiological processes, including cell survival and
differentiation and innate and adaptive immunity. In recent years, considerable progress has …

An overview of the molecular mechanisms of recombinational DNA repair

SC Kowalczykowski - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Recombinational DNA repair is a universal aspect of DNA metabolism and is essential for
genomic integrity. It is a template-directed process that uses a second chromosomal copy …

Mechanisms of vertebrate DNA interstrand cross-link repair

DR Semlow, JC Walter - Annual review of biochemistry, 2021 - annualreviews.org
DNA interstrand cross-links (ICLs) covalently connect the two strands of the double helix and
are extremely cytotoxic. Defective ICL repair causes the bone marrow failure and cancer …

Two aldehyde clearance systems are essential to prevent lethal formaldehyde accumulation in mice and humans

FA Dingler, M Wang, A Mu, CL Millington, N Oberbeck… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Reactive aldehydes arise as by-products of metabolism and are normally cleared by
multiple families of enzymes. We find that mice lacking two aldehyde detoxifying enzymes …