Targeting the BRCA1/2 deficient cancer with PARP inhibitors: Clinical outcomes and mechanistic insights

A Ragupathi, M Singh, AM Perez… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
BRCA1 and BRCA2 play a critical role in a variety of molecular processes related to DNA
metabolism, including homologous recombination and mediating the replication stress …

Tumor hypoxia as a driving force in genetic instability

KR Luoto, R Kumareswaran, RG Bristow - Genome integrity, 2013 - Springer
Sub-regions of hypoxia exist within all tumors and the presence of intratumoral hypoxia has
an adverse impact on patient prognosis. Tumor hypoxia can increase metastatic capacity …

Alternative lengthening of telomeres mediated by mitotic DNA synthesis engages break-induced replication processes

J Min, WE Wright, JW Shay - Molecular and cellular biology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) is a telomerase-independent telomere
maintenance mechanism that occurs in a subset of cancers. By analyzing telomerase …

Shaping the BRCAness mutational landscape by alternative double-strand break repair, replication stress and mitotic aberrancies

C Stok, YP Kok, N van den Tempel… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Tumours with mutations in the BRCA1/BRCA2 genes have impaired double-stranded DNA
break repair, compromised replication fork protection and increased sensitivity to replication …

A meiosis-specific BRCA2 binding protein recruits recombinases to DNA double-strand breaks to ensure homologous recombination

J Zhang, Y Fujiwara, S Yamamoto, H Shibuya - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Homologous recombination (HR) repairs DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) to maintain
genomic integrity. Recombinase recruited to the DSBs by the mediator protein BRCA2 …

The BRCA2-MEILB2-BRME1 complex governs meiotic recombination and impairs the mitotic BRCA2-RAD51 function in cancer cells

J Zhang, M Gurusaran, Y Fujiwara, K Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Breast cancer susceptibility gene II (BRCA2) is central in homologous recombination (HR).
In meiosis, BRCA2 binds to MEILB2 to localize to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Here …

Oxidative stress: role and response of short guanine tracts at genomic locations

A Singh, R Kukreti, L Saso, S Kukreti - International Journal of Molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Over the decades, oxidative stress has emerged as a major concern to biological
researchers. It is involved in the pathogenesis of various lifestyle-related diseases such as …

BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 tumor suppressors protect against endogenous acetaldehyde toxicity

EMC Tacconi, X Lai, C Folio, M Porru… - EMBO Molecular …, 2017 - embopress.org
Maintenance of genome integrity requires the functional interplay between Fanconi anemia
(FA) and homologous recombination (HR) repair pathways. Endogenous acetaldehyde, a …

Alternative lengthening of telomeres can be maintained by preferential elongation of lagging strands

J Min, WE Wright, JW Shay - Nucleic acids research, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) is a telomerase independent telomere
maintenance mechanism that occurs in∼ 15% of cancers. The potential mechanism of ALT …

A novel role of prostate-specific membrane antigen in telomere stability in prostate cancer cells

V Reddy, C Hwang, GPV Reddy, SH Kim - Molecular Cancer Research, 2023 - AACR
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) expression increases with prostate cancer
grade and progression; however, the role of PSMA in prostate cancer progression remains …