Prime editing: advances and therapeutic applications

Z Zhao, P Shang, P Mohanraju, N Geijsen - Trends in Biotechnology, 2023 - cell.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-associated protein 9 (CRISPR–
Cas)-mediated genome editing has revolutionized biomedical research and will likely …

'Off-the-shelf'allogeneic CAR T cells: development and challenges

S Depil, P Duchateau, SA Grupp, G Mufti… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have changed the therapeutic
landscape in haematological malignancies. Nevertheless, the use of allogeneic CAR T cells …

Polθ inhibitors elicit BRCA-gene synthetic lethality and target PARP inhibitor resistance

D Zatreanu, HMR Robinson, O Alkhatib… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
To identify approaches to target DNA repair vulnerabilities in cancer, we discovered
nanomolar potent, selective, low molecular weight (MW), allosteric inhibitors of the …

Predicting the mutations generated by repair of Cas9-induced double-strand breaks

F Allen, L Crepaldi, C Alsinet, AJ Strong… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The DNA mutation produced by cellular repair of a CRISPR–Cas9-generated double-strand
break determines its phenotypic effect. It is known that the mutational outcomes are not …

Shelterin-mediated telomere protection

T De Lange - Annual review of genetics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
For more than a decade, it has been known that mammalian cells use shelterin to protect
chromosome ends. Much progress has been made on the mechanism by which shelterin …

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 …

Microhomology-mediated end joining: a back-up survival mechanism or dedicated pathway?

A Sfeir, LS Symington - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2015 - cell.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) disrupt the continuity of chromosomes and their repair by
error-free mechanisms is essential to preserve genome integrity. Microhomology-mediated …

Homologous-recombination-deficient tumours are dependent on Polθ-mediated repair

R Ceccaldi, JC Liu, R Amunugama, I Hajdu, B Primack… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Large-scale genomic studies have shown that half of epithelial ovarian cancers (EOCs)
have alterations in genes regulating homologous recombination (HR) repair. Loss of HR …

Sources of DNA double-strand breaks and models of recombinational DNA repair

A Mehta, JE Haber - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
DNA is subject to many endogenous and exogenous insults that impair DNA replication and
proper chromosome segregation. DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are one of the most …

Repair of strand breaks by homologous recombination

M Jasin, R Rothstein - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In this review, we discuss the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) using a
homologous DNA sequence (ie, homologous recombination [HR]), focusing mainly on yeast …