The multifaceted role of autophagy in cancer

RC Russell, KL Guan - The EMBO journal, 2022 - embopress.org
Autophagy is a cellular degradative pathway that plays diverse roles in maintaining cellular
homeostasis. Cellular stress caused by starvation, organelle damage, or proteotoxic …

Homologous recombination and human health: the roles of BRCA1, BRCA2, and associated proteins

R Prakash, Y Zhang, W Feng… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Homologous recombination (HR) is a major pathway for the repair of DNA double-strand
breaks in mammalian cells, the defining step of which is homologous strand exchange …

Evaluating the clinical validity of gene-disease associations: an evidence-based framework developed by the clinical genome resource

NT Strande, ER Riggs, AH Buchanan… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
With advances in genomic sequencing technology, the number of reported gene-disease
relationships has rapidly expanded. However, the evidence supporting these claims varies …

53BP1 mediates productive and mutagenic DNA repair through distinct phosphoprotein interactions

E Callen, M Di Virgilio, MJ Kruhlak, M Nieto-Soler… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The DNA damage response (DDR) protein 53BP1 protects DNA ends from excessive
resection in G1, and thereby favors repair by nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) as …

Germline variant burden in cancer genes correlates with age at diagnosis and somatic mutation burden

T Qing, H Mohsen, M Marczyk, Y Ye, T O'Meara… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancers harbor many somatic mutations and germline variants, we hypothesized that the
combined effect of germline variants that alter the structure, expression, or function of protein …

BRCA1-Dependent and independent recruitment of PALB2–BRCA2–RAD51 in the DNA damage response and Cancer

TK Foo, B Xia - Cancer research, 2022 - AACR
Abstract The BRCA1–PALB2–BRCA2 axis plays essential roles in the cellular response to
DNA double-strand breaks (DSB), maintenance of genome integrity, and suppression of …

BRCA1 haploinsufficiency is masked by RNF168-mediated chromatin ubiquitylation

D Zong, S Adam, Y Wang, H Sasanuma, E Callén… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
BRCA1 functions at two distinct steps during homologous recombination (HR). Initially, it
promotes DNA end resection, and subsequently it recruits the PALB2 and BRCA2 mediator …

BRCA1 mutation-specific responses to 53BP1 loss-induced homologous recombination and PARP inhibitor resistance

J Nacson, JJ Krais, AJ Bernhardy, E Clausen, W Feng… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
BRCA1 functions in homologous recombination (HR) both up-and downstream of DNA end
resection. However, in cells with 53BP1 gene knockout (KO), BRCA1 is dispensable for the …

Autophagy Opposes p53-Mediated Tumor Barrier to Facilitate Tumorigenesis in a Model of PALB2-Associated Hereditary Breast Cancer

Y Huo, H Cai, I Teplova, C Bowman-Colin, G Chen… - Cancer discovery, 2013 - AACR
Hereditary breast cancers stem from germline mutations in susceptibility genes such as
BRCA1, BRCA2, and PALB2, whose products function in the DNA damage response and …

Functional Assays for Analysis of Variants of Uncertain Significance in BRCA2

L Guidugli, A Carreira, SM Caputo, A Ehlen… - Human …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Missense variants in the BRCA 2 gene are routinely detected during clinical screening for
pathogenic mutations in patients with a family history of breast and ovarian cancer. These …