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 …

Cellular functions of the protein kinase ATM and their relevance to human disease

JH Lee, TT Paull - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
The protein kinase ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) is a master regulator of double-
strand DNA break (DSB) signalling and stress responses. For three decades, ATM has been …

DNA double-strand break repair-pathway choice in somatic mammalian cells

R Scully, A Panday, R Elango, NA Willis - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
The major pathways of DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair are crucial for maintaining
genomic stability. However, if deployed in an inappropriate cellular context, these same …

PARP inhibitor resistance: the underlying mechanisms and clinical implications

H Li, ZY Liu, N Wu, YC Chen, Q Cheng, J Wang - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Due to the DNA repair defect, BRCA1/2 deficient tumor cells are more sensitive to PARP
inhibitors (PARPi) through the mechanism of synthetic lethality. At present, several PAPRi …

Non-homologous DNA end joining and alternative pathways to double-strand break repair

HHY Chang, NR Pannunzio, N Adachi… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2017 - nature.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are the most dangerous type of DNA damage because
they can result in the loss of large chromosomal regions. In all mammalian cells, DSBs that …

Methods favoring homology-directed repair choice in response to CRISPR/Cas9 induced-double strand breaks

H Yang, S Ren, S Yu, H Pan, T Li, S Ge… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Precise gene editing is—or will soon be—in clinical use for several diseases, and more
applications are under development. The programmable nuclease Cas9, directed by a …

The antitumorigenic roles of BRCA1–BARD1 in DNA repair and replication

M Tarsounas, P Sung - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
The tumour suppressor breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein (BRCA1) promotes DNA
double-strand break (DSB) repair by homologous recombination and protects DNA …

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 …

Repair pathway choices and consequences at the double-strand break

R Ceccaldi, B Rondinelli, AD D'Andrea - Trends in cell biology, 2016 - cell.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are cytotoxic lesions that threaten genomic integrity.
Failure to repair a DSB has deleterious consequences, including genomic instability and cell …

The MRE11–RAD50–NBS1 complex conducts the orchestration of damage signaling and outcomes to stress in DNA replication and repair

A Syed, JA Tainer - Annual review of biochemistry, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Genomic instability in disease and its fidelity in health depend on the DNA damage
response (DDR), regulated in part from the complex of meiotic recombination 11 homolog 1 …