Homologous recombination deficiency: exploiting the fundamental vulnerability of ovarian cancer

PA Konstantinopoulos, R Ceccaldi, GI Shapiro… - Cancer discovery, 2015 - AACR
Approximately 50% of epithelial ovarian cancers (EOC) exhibit defective DNA repair via
homologous recombination (HR) due to genetic and epigenetic alterations of HR pathway …

Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors: recent advances and future development

CL Scott, EM Swisher, SH Kaufmann - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors have shown promising activity in epithelial
ovarian cancers, especially relapsed platinum-sensitive high-grade serous disease …

Trapping of PARP1 and PARP2 by clinical PARP inhibitors

J Murai, SYN Huang, BB Das, A Renaud, Y Zhang… - Cancer research, 2012 - AACR
Small-molecule inhibitors of PARP are thought to mediate their antitumor effects as catalytic
inhibitors that block repair of DNA single-strand breaks (SSB). However, the mechanism of …

Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases in double-strand break repair: focus on PARP1, PARP2 and PARP3

C Beck, I Robert, B Reina-San-Martin… - Experimental cell …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Poly (ADP-ribosyl) ation (PARylation) is a post-translational modification of proteins
catalysed by Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARP). A wealth of recent advances in the …

DNA double-strand break repair inhibitors as cancer therapeutics

M Srivastava, SC Raghavan - Chemistry & biology, 2015 - cell.com
Among DNA damages, double-strand breaks (DSBs) are one of the most harmful lesions to
a cell. Failure in DSB repair could lead to genomic instability and cancer. Homologous …

Functional aspects of PARP1 in DNA repair and transcription

HL Ko, EC Ren - Biomolecules, 2012 - mdpi.com
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) is an ADP-ribosylating enzyme essential for
initiating various forms of DNA repair. Inhibiting its enzyme activity with small molecules thus …

The potential of PARP inhibitors in targeted cancer therapy and immunotherapy

J Hunia, K Gawalski, A Szredzka… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
DNA damage response (DDR) deficiencies result in genome instability, which is one of the
hallmarks of cancer. Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) enzymes take part in various …

Super-resolution imaging identifies PARP1 and the Ku complex acting as DNA double-strand break sensors

G Yang, C Liu, SH Chen, MA Kassab… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are fatal DNA lesions and activate a rapid DNA damage
response. However, the earliest stage of DSB sensing remains elusive. Here, we report that …

Synthetic lethal targeting of oncogenic transcription factors in acute leukemia by PARP inhibitors

MT Esposito, L Zhao, TK Fung, JK Rane, A Wilson… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is mostly driven by oncogenic transcription factors, which
have been classically viewed as intractable targets using small-molecule inhibitor …

PARPs and the DNA damage response

FG Sousa, R Matuo, DG Soares, AE Escargueil… - …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-ribosylation is an important posttranslational modification
catalyzed by a variety of enzymes, including poly (ADP ribose) polymerases (PARPs), which …