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ReviewCancers2019

RAD52 as a Potential Target for Synthetic Lethality-Based Anticancer Therapies.

Monika Toma, Katherine Sullivan-Reed, Tomasz Śliwiński, Tomasz Skorski

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Review in Cancers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 43 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Monika TomaSol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center and Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA. monikatoma3@gmail.com.
Katherine Sullivan-ReedSol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center and Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA. katherine.s.reed@temple.edu.
Tomasz ŚliwińskiLaboratory of Medical Genetics Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-236 Lodz, Poland. tomasz.sliwinski@biol.uni.lodz.pl.
Tomasz SkorskiSol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center and Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA. tskorski@temple.edu.
Temple University · USUniversity of Łódź · PL

Funding

TRAINING PROGRAM IN CANCER RESEARCHT32CA009035 · NCI · RESEARCH INST OF FOX CHASE CAN CTR · PI CHERNOFF, JONATHAN · 1985 to 2020
$10.5M
Targeting DNA repair to eradicate TKi-refractory/resistant CML and Ph+ALLR01CA186238 · NCI · TEMPLE UNIV OF THE COMMONWEALTH · PI SKORSKI, TOMASZ · 2014 to 2024
$4.5M
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Translational Research Program award 6565-19Narodowe Centrum Nauki 2016/22/M/NZ7/00375NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009035NIH HHS R01 CA186238Polish National Science Center doctoral scholarship Etiuda6 DEC-2018/28/T/NZ7/00105
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alterations in DNA repair systems play a key role in the induction and progression of cancer. Tumor-specific defects in DNA repair mechanisms and activation of alternative repair routes create the opportunity to employ a phenomenon called "synthetic lethality" to eliminate cancer cells. Targeting the backup pathways may amplify endogenous and drug-induced DNA damage and lead to specific eradication of cancer cells. So far, the synthetic lethal interaction between BRCA1/2 and PARP1 has been successfully applied as an anticancer treatment. Although PARP1 constitutes a promising target in the treatment of tumors harboring deficiencies in BRCA1/2-mediated homologous recombination (HR), some tumor cells survive, resulting in disease relapse. It has been suggested that alternative RAD52-mediated HR can protect BRCA1/2-deficient cells from the accumulation of DNA damage and the synthetic lethal effect of PARPi. Thus, simultaneous inhibition of RAD52 and PARP1 might result in a robust dual synthetic lethality, effectively eradicating BRCA1/2-deficient tumor cells. In this review, we will discuss the role of RAD52 and its potential application in synthetic lethality-based anticancer therapies.

Indexed as

DNA repairdual synthetic lethalityPARP1RAD52synthetic lethality

Identifiers

PMID31615159
PMCPMC6827130
OpenAlexW2980117450

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