Targeting transcription cycles in cancer

SJ Vervoort, JR Devlin, N Kwiatkowski, M Teng… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Accurate control of gene expression is essential for normal development and dysregulation
of transcription underpins cancer onset and progression. Similar to cell cycle regulation …

Transcription-associated cyclin-dependent kinases as targets and biomarkers for cancer therapy

J Chou, DA Quigley, TM Robinson, FY Feng… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Drugs targeting the cell cycle–regulatory cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4 and 6 have been
approved for the treatment of hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, and inhibitors …

[HTML][HTML] Management of patients with advanced prostate cancer—metastatic and/or castration-resistant prostate cancer: report of the Advanced Prostate Cancer …

S Gillessen, A Bossi, ID Davis, J de Bono… - European journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Innovations in imaging and molecular characterisation together with novel
treatment options have improved outcomes in advanced prostate cancer. However, we still …

CDK12-Altered Prostate Cancer: Clinical Features and Therapeutic Outcomes to Standard Systemic Therapies, Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase Inhibitors, and PD-1 …

ES Antonarakis, P Isaacsson Velho, W Fu… - JCO precision …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE In prostate cancer, inactivating CDK12 mutations lead to gene fusion–induced
neoantigens and possibly sensitivity to immunotherapy. We aimed to clinically …

Genetic aberrations in DNA repair pathways: a cornerstone of precision oncology in prostate cancer

R Lozano, E Castro, IM Aragón, Y Cendón… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the past years, several studies have demonstrated that defects in DNA damage
response and repair (DDR) genes are present in a significant proportion of patients with …

BRCA2, ATM, and CDK12 Defects Differentially Shape Prostate Tumor Driver Genomics and Clinical Aggression

E Warner, C Herberts, S Fu, S Yip, A Wong… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Purpose: DNA damage repair (DDR) defects are common across cancer types and can
indicate therapeutic vulnerability. Optimal exploitation of DDR defects in prostate cancer …

Pan-cancer analysis of CDK12 alterations identifies a subset of prostate cancers with distinct genomic and clinical characteristics

B Nguyen, JM Mota, S Nandakumar, KH Stopsack… - European urology, 2020 - Elsevier
Background CDK12 genomic alterations occur in several tumor types, but little is known
about their oncogenic role and clinical significance. Objective To describe the landscape of …

Characterizing CDK12-mutated prostate cancers

P Rescigno, B Gurel, R Pereira, M Crespo… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Abstract Purpose: Cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12) aberrations have been reported as
a biomarker of response to immunotherapy for metastatic castration-resistant prostate …

Targeting CDK12 for cancer therapy: function, mechanism, and drug discovery

H Liu, K Liu, Z Dong - Cancer research, 2021 - AACR
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12) is a member of the CDK family of proteins
(CDK) and is critical for cancer development. Years of study into CDK12 have generated …

Targeting DNA damage response in prostate and breast cancer

AM Wengner, A Scholz, B Haendler - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Steroid hormone signaling induces vast gene expression programs which necessitate the
local formation of transcription factories at regulatory regions and large-scale alterations of …