Transposable elements in human genetic disease

LM Payer, KH Burns - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Transposable elements are abundant in the human genome, and great strides have been
made in pinpointing variations in these repetitive sequences using whole-genome …

Advances in synthetic lethality for cancer therapy: cellular mechanism and clinical translation

W Topatana, S Juengpanich, S Li, J Cao, J Hu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
Synthetic lethality is a lethal phenomenon in which the occurrence of a single genetic event
is tolerable for cell survival, whereas the co-occurrence of multiple genetic events results in …

ATR inhibitor AZD6738 (ceralasertib) exerts antitumor activity as a monotherapy and in combination with chemotherapy and the PARP inhibitor olaparib

Z Wilson, R Odedra, Y Wallez, PWG Wijnhoven… - Cancer research, 2022 - AACR
AZD6738 (ceralasertib) is a potent and selective orally bioavailable inhibitor of ataxia
telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) kinase. ATR is activated in response to stalled DNA …

Combined inhibition of Aurora-A and ATR kinases results in regression of MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma

I Roeschert, E Poon, AG Henssen, H Dorado Garcia… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Amplification of MYCN is the driving oncogenic change in a subset of high-risk
neuroblastomas. The MYCN protein and the Aurora-A kinase form a complex during the S …

Stereospecific reaction of sulfonimidoyl fluorides with Grignard reagents for the synthesis of enantioenriched sulfoximines

S Greed, O Symes, JA Bull - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Sulfonimidoyl halides have previously shown poor stability and selectivity in reaction with
organometallic reagents. Here we report the preparation of enantioenriched sulfonimidoyl …

Development and proof of concept for a large-scale photoredox additive-free Minisci reaction

MA Graham, G Noonan, JH Cherryman… - … Process Research & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
New route development activities toward ceralasertib (AZD6738) have resulted in the
discovery of an efficient, acid additive-free, photoredox Minisci reaction. Mechanistic …

Synthesis of sulfoximines and sulfonimidamides using hypervalent iodine mediated NH transfer

R Luisi, JA Bull - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The development of NH transfer reactions using hypervalent iodine and simple sources of
ammonia has facilitated the synthesis of sulfoximines and sulfonimidamides for applications …

Inhibition of the ATR–CHK1 pathway in Ewing Sarcoma cells causes DNA damage and apoptosis via the CDK2-mediated degradation of RRM2

SL Koppenhafer, KL Goss, WW Terry… - Molecular Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Inhibition of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), the rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of
deoxyribonucleotides, causes DNA replication stress and activates the ataxia telangiectasia …

Passer, a highly active transposon from a fish genome, as a potential new robust genetic manipulation tool

S Wang, B Gao, C Miskey, Z Guan, Y Sang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of new, active DNA transposons can expand the range of genetic tools and
provide more options for genomic manipulation. In this study, a bioinformatics analysis …

Childhood cancer mutagenesis caused by transposase-derived PGBD5

M Yamada, RR Keller, RL Gutierrez, D Cameron… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Genomic rearrangements are a hallmark of most childhood tumors, including
medulloblastoma, one of the most common brain tumors in children, but their causes remain …