New horizons of synthetic lethality in cancer: current development and future perspectives

V Previtali, G Bagnolini, A Ciamarone… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In recent years, synthetic lethality has been recognized as a solid paradigm for anticancer
therapies. The discovery of a growing number of synthetic lethal targets has led to a …

Paralog-based synthetic lethality: rationales and applications

Y Xin, Y Zhang - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tumor cells can result from gene mutations and over-expression. Synthetic lethality (SL)
offers a desirable setting where cancer cells bearing one mutated gene of an SL gene pair …

Benchmarking machine learning methods for synthetic lethality prediction in cancer

Y Feng, Y Long, H Wang, Y Ouyang, Q Li, M Wu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Synthetic lethality (SL) is a gold mine of anticancer drug targets, exposing cancer-specific
dependencies of cellular survival. To complement resource-intensive experimental …

Targeting the Sodium–Potassium Pump as a Therapeutic Strategy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

C Schneider, H Spaink, G Alexe, NV Dharia… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Tissue-specific differences in the expression of paralog genes, which are not essential in
most cell types due to the buffering effect of the partner pair, can make for highly selective …

Multi-view graph convolutional network for cancer cell-specific synthetic lethality prediction

K Fan, S Tang, B Gökbağ, L Cheng, L Li - Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Synthetic lethal (SL) genetic interactions have been regarded as a promising focus for
investigating potential targeted therapeutics to tackle cancer. However, the costly investment …

Synthetic lethal connectivity and graph transformer improve synthetic lethality prediction

K Fan, B Gökbağ, S Tang, S Li, Y Huang… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic lethality (SL) has shown great promise for the discovery of novel targets in cancer.
CRISPR double-knockout (CDKO) technologies can only screen several hundred genes …

[HTML][HTML] The power and the promise of synthetic lethality for clinical application in cancer treatment

QW Liu, ZW Yang, QH Tang, WE Wang, DS Chu… - Biomedicine & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Synthetic lethality is a phenomenon wherein the simultaneous deficiency of two or more
genes results in cell death, while the deficiency of any individual gene does not lead to cell …

NetVA: an R package for network vulnerability and influence analysis

S Kumar, G Pauline, V Vindal - Journal of Biomolecular Structure …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In biological network analysis, identifying key molecules plays a decisive role in the
development of potential diagnostic and therapeutic candidates. Among various approaches …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblast subpopulations in prostate cancer: Implications for prognosis and immunotherapy

C Ding, J Wang, J Wang, J Niu, Z Xiahou, Z Sun… - Translational …, 2025 - Elsevier
Background Prostate cancer stands as the second most common malignancy among men,
notorious for its intricate heterogeneity, especially evident in metastatic disease. This …

Potential promising of synthetic lethality in cancer research and treatment

M Karami Fath, B Najafiyan, R Morovatshoar… - Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's …, 2024 - Springer
Cancer is a complex disease driven by multiple genetic changes, including mutations in
oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, DNA repair genes, and genes involved in cancer …