Attacking the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway for targeted therapeutic treatment in human cancer

L Yu, J Wei, P Liu - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer is the second leading cause of human death globally. PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling is
one of the most frequently dysregulated signaling pathways observed in cancer patients that …

Targeting DNA repair in cancer: beyond PARP inhibitors

JS Brown, B O'Carrigan, SP Jackson, TA Yap - Cancer discovery, 2017 - AACR
Germline aberrations in critical DNA-repair and DNA damage–response (DDR) genes
cause cancer predisposition, whereas various tumors harbor somatic mutations causing …

Radiotherapy is associated with a deletion signature that contributes to poor outcomes in patients with cancer

E Kocakavuk, KJ Anderson, FS Varn, KC Johnson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ionizing radiation causes DNA damage and is a mainstay for cancer treatment, but
understanding of its genomic impact is limited. We analyzed mutational spectra following …

Harnessing DNA double-strand break repair for cancer treatment

A Trenner, AA Sartori - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are highly deleterious, with a single unrepaired DSB
being sufficient to trigger cell death. Compared to healthy cells, cancer cells have a higher …

DNA-PKcs: a multi-faceted player in DNA damage response

X Yue, C Bai, D Xie, T Ma, PK Zhou - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs) is a member of the
phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase related kinase family, which can phosphorylate more than 700 …

Pathways and mechanisms of venetoclax resistance

P Bose, V Gandhi, M Konopleva - Leukemia & lymphoma, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The approval of venetoclax, a 'BH3-mimetic'antagonist of the BCL-2 anti-apoptotic protein,
for chronic lymphocytic leukemia represents a major milestone in translational apoptosis …

Mutant lamins cause nuclear envelope rupture and DNA damage in skeletal muscle cells

AJ Earle, TJ Kirby, GR Fedorchak, P Isermann… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Mutations in the LMNA gene, which encodes the nuclear envelope (NE) proteins lamins A/C,
cause Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, congenital muscular dystrophy and other …

The role of the core non-homologous end joining factors in carcinogenesis and cancer

BJ Sishc, AJ Davis - Cancers, 2017 - mdpi.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are deleterious DNA lesions that if left unrepaired or are
misrepaired, potentially result in chromosomal aberrations, known drivers of carcinogenesis …

Inhibiting DNA-PK induces glioma stem cell differentiation and sensitizes glioblastoma to radiation in mice

X Fang, Z Huang, K Zhai, Q Huang, W Tao… - Science Translational …, 2021 - science.org
Glioblastoma (GBM), a lethal primary brain tumor, contains glioma stem cells (GSCs) that
promote malignant progression and therapeutic resistance. SOX2 is a core transcription …

Therapeutic targeting of DNA damage response in cancer

W Choi, ES Lee - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
DNA damage response (DDR) is critical to ensure genome stability, and defects in this
signaling pathway are highly associated with carcinogenesis and tumor progression …