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ReviewCancer treatment reviews2018

Restored replication fork stabilization, a mechanism of PARP inhibitor resistance, can be overcome by cell cycle checkpoint inhibition.

Brittany Haynes, Junko Murai, Jung-Min Lee

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Review in Cancer treatment reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers.

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86citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

86 citing papers in PubMed, 122 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Brittany HaynesWomen's Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: Brittany.Haynes@nih.gov.
Junko MuraiDevelopmental Therapeutics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Jung-Min LeeWomen's Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Center for Cancer Research · USNational Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Targeting DNA damage repair and related pathways in HRD-womens cancersZIABC011525 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI LEE, JUNG-MIN · 2013 to 2025
$14.8M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA BC011525
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibition serves as a potent therapeutic option eliciting synthetic lethality in cancers harboring homologous recombination (HR) repair defects, such as BRCA mutations. However, the development of resistance to PARP inhibitors (PARPis) poses a clinical challenge. Restoration of HR competency is one of the many molecular factors contributing to PARPi resistance. Combination therapy with cell cycle checkpoint (ATR, CHK1, and WEE1) inhibitors is being investigated clinically in many cancers, particularly in ovarian cancer, to enhance the efficacy and circumvent resistance to PARPis. Ideally, inhibition of ATR, CHK1 and WEE1 proteins will abrogate G2 arrest and subsequent DNA repair via restored HR in PARPi-treated cells. Replication fork stabilization has recently been identified as a potential compensatory PARPi resistance mechanism, found in the absence of restored HR. ATR, CHK1, and WEE1 each possess different roles in replication fork stabilization, providing different mechanisms to consider when developing combination therapies to avoid continued development of drug resistance. This review examines the impact of ATR, CHK1, and WEE1 on replication fork stabilization. We also address the therapeutic potential for combining PARPis with cell cycle inhibitors and the possible consequence of combination therapies which do not adequately address both restored HR and replication fork stabilization as PARPi resistance mechanisms.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsAtaxia Telangiectasia Mutated ProteinsCell Cycle CheckpointsCell Cycle ProteinsCheckpoint Kinase 1DNA RepairDNA ReplicationDrug Resistance, NeoplasmFemaleHomologous RecombinationHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyNuclear ProteinsOvarian NeoplasmsPoly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase InhibitorsProtein-Tyrosine KinasesAtaxia Telangiectasia Mutated ProteinsATR protein, humanCell Cycle ProteinsCheckpoint Kinase 1CHEK1 protein, humanNuclear ProteinsPoly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase InhibitorsProtein-Tyrosine KinasesWEE1 protein, humanCell cycle checkpoint inhibitorsDrug resistancePARP inhibitor resistanceReplication fork protectionReplication fork stabilization

Identifiers

PMID30269007
PMCPMC7429716
OpenAlexW2891719366

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