BRCA1 and BRCA2 deficient tumor cells are sensitive to inhibitors of Poly ADP Ribose Polymerase (PARP1) through the mechanism of synthetic lethality. Several PARP inhibitors …
GM Findlay, RM Daza, B Martin, MD Zhang, AP Leith… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Variants of uncertain significance fundamentally limit the clinical utility of genetic information. The challenge they pose is epitomized by BRCA1, a tumour suppressor gene in which …
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 …
Based on genomic analysis, 50% of high-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSC) are predicted to have DNA repair defects. Whether this substantial subset of HGSCs actually …
Homologous recombination (HR) repair deficiency impairs the proper maintenance of genomic stability, thus rendering cancer cells vulnerable to loss or inhibition of DNA repair …
D Senft, J Qi, ZA Ronai - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The cellular response to external stress signals and DNA damage depends on the activity of ubiquitin ligases (E3s), which regulate numerous cellular processes, including homeostasis …
Approximately 50% of epithelial ovarian cancers (EOC) exhibit defective DNA repair via homologous recombination (HR) due to genetic and epigenetic alterations of HR pathway …
K Kersten, KE de Visser, MH van Miltenburg… - EMBO molecular …, 2017 - embopress.org
Genetically engineered mouse models (GEMM s) have contributed significantly to the field of cancer research. In contrast to cancer cell inoculation models, GEMM s develop de novo …
R Prakash, Y Zhang, W Feng… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Homologous recombination (HR) is a major pathway for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks in mammalian cells, the defining step of which is homologous strand exchange …