[HTML][HTML] Tumor hypoxia and radiotherapy: a major driver of resistance even for novel radiotherapy modalities

C Beckers, M Pruschy, I Vetrugno - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypoxia in solid tumors is an important predictor of poor clinical outcome to radiotherapy.
Both physicochemical and biological processes contribute to a reduced sensitivity of hypoxic …

ATM, ATR, and DNA-PK: The Trinity at the Heart of the DNA Damage Response

AN Blackford, SP Jackson - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
In vertebrate cells, the DNA damage response is controlled by three related kinases: ATM,
ATR, and DNA-PK. It has been 20 years since the cloning of ATR, the last of the three to be …

Tumor hypoxia as a barrier in cancer therapy: why levels matter

T Hompland, CS Fjeldbo, H Lyng - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Hypoxia is a common feature of solid tumors and associated with poor
outcome in most cancer types and treatment modalities, including radiotherapy …

ATM and ATR signaling at a glance

P Awasthi, M Foiani, A Kumar - Journal of cell science, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT ATM and ATR signaling pathways are well conserved throughout evolution and
are central to the maintenance of genome integrity. Although the role of both ATM and ATR …

Replication stress drives constitutive activation of the DNA damage response and radioresistance in glioblastoma stem-like cells

RD Carruthers, SU Ahmed, S Ramachandran… - Cancer research, 2018 - AACR
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a lethal primary brain tumor characterized by treatment resistance
and inevitable tumor recurrence, both of which are driven by a subpopulation of GBM cancer …

Modeling tumor cell adaptations to hypoxia in multicellular tumor spheroids

S Riffle, RS Hegde - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, 2017 - Springer
Under hypoxic conditions, tumor cells undergo a series of adaptations that promote
evolution of a more aggressive tumor phenotype including the activation of DNA damage …

[HTML][HTML] The meaning, measurement and modification of hypoxia in the laboratory and the clinic

EM Hammond, MC Asselin, D Forster, JPB O'Connor… - Clinical oncology, 2014 - Elsevier
Hypoxia was identified as a microenvironmental component of solid tumours over 60 years
ago and was immediately recognised as a potential barrier to therapy through the reliance of …

Activation of DNA damage response signaling by condensed chromatin

RC Burgess, B Burman, MJ Kruhlak, T Misteli - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
The DNA damage response (DDR) occurs in the context of chromatin, and architectural
features of chromatin have been implicated in DNA damage signaling and repair. Whereas …

USP9X-mediated KDM4C deubiquitination promotes lung cancer radioresistance by epigenetically inducing TGF-β2 transcription

X Jie, WP Fong, R Zhou, Y Zhao, Y Zhao… - Cell Death & …, 2021 - nature.com
Radioresistance is regarded as the main barrier to effective radiotherapy in lung cancer.
However, the underlying mechanisms of radioresistance remain elusive. Here, we show that …

DNA replication stress and cancer chemotherapy

H Kitao, M Iimori, Y Kataoka, T Wakasa… - Cancer …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
DNA replication is one of the fundamental biological processes in which dysregulation can
cause genome instability. This instability is one of the hallmarks of cancer and confers …