ReviewClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2015
Molecular Pathways: Targeting ATR in Cancer Therapy.
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- Safety and efficacy of ceralasertib, an ATR kinase inhibitor, combined with olaparib: dose escalation in advanced solid tumours and dose expansion in advanced breast cancer.British journal of cancer · 2026Article
- ATR inhibition induces NF-κB-dependent immunogenicity in Merkel cell carcinoma independent of cGAS-STING.NPJ precision oncology · 2026Article
- Emerging roles of ATR beyond DNA damage repair: orchestrating transcriptional reprogramming during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026Article
- Colonoid-Based Transcriptomics Reveals Conserved and Model-Specific Mechanisms of Doxorubicin-Induced Intestinal Toxicity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Unsupervised Deep Representation Learning and Probabilistic Clustering for the Systems-Level Discovery of Germline Mutation Signatures in Pediatric Cancers.Biomedicines · 2026Article
- A RHNO1-ATR/Chk1 positive feedback loop sustains the DNA replication stress response.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Combination of CHK1 and CHK2 inhibitors exerts synergistic antitumor effects against neuroblastoma cells.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Increased replication-associated single-stranded DNA promotes formaldehyde-induced mutagenesis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Synthetic lethality of decitabine plus ATR inhibition for TP53-mutated AML.Blood advances · 2026Article
- Berzosertib enhances the sensitivity of pediatric diffuse midline glioma H3K27-altered cells to radiotherapy.Cell death & disease · 2026Article
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- Targeting the DNA damage response prevents regrowth of colorectal peritoneal metastasis-derived organoids following treatment with mitomycin C.British journal of cancer · 2026Article
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Abstract
The human ATR gene encodes a kinase that is activated by DNA damage and replication stress as a central transducer of a checkpoint signaling pathway. Once activated, ATR phosphorylates multiple substrates, including the kinase Chk1, to regulate cell-cycle progression, replication fork stability, and DNA repair. These events promote cell survival during replication stress and in cells with DNA damage. Accordingly, there has been the tantalizing possibility that ATR inhibitors would be therapeutically useful, especially if they were more effective in tumor versus normal cells. Indeed, multiple studies have demonstrated that alterations that promote tumorigenesis, such as defects in the ATM-p53 pathway, constitutive oncogene activation, and acquisition of the alternative lengthening of telomeres pathway, render tumor cells sensitive to ATR inhibitor monotherapy and/or increase the synergy between ATR inhibitors and genotoxic chemotherapies. Now, nearly two decades after the discovery of ATR, two highly selective and potent ATR inhibitors, AZD6738 and VX-970, are in early-phase clinical trials either as monotherapies or paired with a variety of genotoxic chemotherapies. These trials will generate important insights into the effects of ATR inhibition in humans and the potential role of inhibiting this kinase in the treatment of human malignancies.
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