Nucleotide metabolism: a pan-cancer metabolic dependency

NJ Mullen, PK Singh - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic alterations are a key hallmark of cancer cells, and the augmented synthesis and
use of nucleotide triphosphates is a critical and universal metabolic dependency of cancer …

Targeting replication stress in cancer therapy

AABA da Costa, D Chowdhury, GI Shapiro… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Replication stress is a major cause of genomic instability and a crucial vulnerability of
cancer cells. This vulnerability can be therapeutically targeted by inhibiting kinases that …

Targeting telomeres: advances in telomere maintenance mechanism-specific cancer therapies

J Gao, HA Pickett - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer cells establish replicative immortality by activating a telomere-maintenance
mechanism (TMM), be it telomerase or the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) …

Immune checkpoint blockade in glioblastoma: from tumor heterogeneity to personalized treatment

VA Arrieta, C Dmello, DJ McGrail… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized modern cancer therapy, arousing
great interest in the neuro-oncology community. While several reports show that subsets of …

RONS and oxidative stress: An overview of basic concepts

AK Aranda-Rivera, A Cruz-Gregorio… - Oxygen, 2022 - mdpi.com
Oxidative stress (OS) has greatly interested the research community in understanding
damaging processes occurring in cells. OS is triggered by an imbalance between reactive …

Biomolecular condensates and cancer

A Boija, IA Klein, RA Young - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Malignant transformation is characterized by dysregulation of diverse cellular processes that
have been the subject of detailed genetic, biochemical, and structural studies, but only …

SF3B1 hotspot mutations confer sensitivity to PARP inhibition by eliciting a defective replication stress response

P Bland, H Saville, PT Wai, L Curnow, G Muirhead… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
SF3B1 hotspot mutations are associated with a poor prognosis in several tumor types and
lead to global disruption of canonical splicing. Through synthetic lethal drug screens, we …

Cyclin E/CDK2: DNA replication, replication stress and genomic instability

R Fagundes, LK Teixeira - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
DNA replication must be precisely controlled in order to maintain genome stability.
Transition through cell cycle phases is regulated by a family of Cyclin-Dependent Kinases …

[HTML][HTML] β-Sitosterol as a promising anticancer agent for chemoprevention and chemotherapy: mechanisms of action and future prospects

H Wang, Z Wang, Z Zhang, J Liu, L Hong - Advances in Nutrition, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer is one of the primary causes of death worldwide, and its incidence continues to
increase yearly. Despite significant advances in research, the search for effective and …

Ribosome biogenesis in cancer: new players and therapeutic avenues

J Pelletier, G Thomas, S Volarević - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The ribosome is a complex molecular machine composed of numerous distinct proteins and
nucleic acids and is responsible for protein synthesis in every living cell. Ribosome …