Clinical and translational advances in ovarian cancer therapy

PA Konstantinopoulos, UA Matulonis - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer is an aggressive disease that is frequently detected at advanced stages and
is initially very responsive to platinum-based chemotherapy. However, the majority of …

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 …

The synthetic lethality of targeting cell cycle checkpoints and PARPs in cancer treatment

S Li, L Wang, Y Wang, C Zhang, Z Hong… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Continuous cell division is a hallmark of cancer, and the underlying mechanism is tumor
genomics instability. Cell cycle checkpoints are critical for enabling an orderly cell cycle and …

The PARP1 selective inhibitor saruparib (AZD5305) elicits potent and durable antitumor activity in patient-derived BRCA1/2-associated cancer models

A Herencia-Ropero, A Llop-Guevara… - Genome medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 and 2 (PARP1/2) inhibitors (PARPi) are
targeted therapies approved for homologous recombination repair (HRR)-deficient breast …

PARPi, BRCA, and gaps: controversies and future research

D Dibitetto, CA Widmer, S Rottenberg - Trends in cancer, 2024 - cell.com
In recent years, various poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors (PARPis) have
been approved for the treatment of several cancers to target the vulnerability of homologous …

[HTML][HTML] Base editing screens define the genetic landscape of cancer drug resistance mechanisms

MA Coelho, ME Strauss, A Watterson, S Cooper… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Drug resistance is a principal limitation to the long-term efficacy of cancer therapies. Cancer
genome sequencing can retrospectively delineate the genetic basis of drug resistance, but …

Transcription–replication conflicts underlie sensitivity to PARP inhibitors

M Petropoulos, A Karamichali, GG Rossetti… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
An important advance in cancer therapy has been the development of poly (ADP-ribose)
polymerase (PARP) inhibitors for the treatment of homologous recombination (HR)-deficient …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting DNA repair for cancer treatment: Lessons from PARP inhibitor trials

DK Nambiar, D Mishra, RP Singh - Oncology research, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ionizing radiation is frequently used to treat solid tumors, as it causes DNA damage and kill
cancer cells. However, damaged DNA is repaired involving poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 …

Design and preclinical evaluation of a novel B7-H4–directed antibody–drug conjugate, AZD8205, alone and in combination with the PARP1-selective inhibitor …

K Kinneer, P Wortmann, ZA Cooper, NJ Dickinson… - Clinical Cancer …, 2023 - AACR
Purpose: We evaluated the activity of AZD8205, a B7-H4–directed antibody–drug conjugate
(ADC) bearing a novel topoisomerase I inhibitor (TOP1i) payload, alone and in combination …

Clinical PARP inhibitors allosterically induce PARP2 retention on DNA

MF Langelier, X Lin, S Zha, JM Pascal - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
PARP1 and PARP2 detect DNA breaks, which activates their catalytic production of poly
(ADP-ribose) that recruits repair factors and contributes to PARP1/2 release from DNA …