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ArticleCancers2020

Current Understanding of RAD52 Functions: Fundamental and Therapeutic Insights.

Vanesa Gottifredi, Lisa Wiesmüller

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Article in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 38% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Vanesa GottifrediFundación Instituto Leloir, IIBBA-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Av. Patricias Argentinas 435, 1405 Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0001-9656-5951
Lisa WiesmüllerDivision of Gynecological Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Ulm Prittwitzstrasse 43, 89075 Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2397-5041
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · ARUniversität Ulm · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this Special Issue, we would like to focus on the various functions of the RAD52 helicase-like protein and the current implications of such findings for cancer treatment. Over the last few years, various laboratories have discovered particular activities of mammalian RAD52-both in S and M phase-that are distinct from the auxiliary role of yeast RAD52 in homologous recombination. At DNA double-strand breaks, RAD52 was demonstrated to spur alternative pathways to compensate for the loss of homologous recombination functions. At collapsed replication forks, RAD52 activates break-induced replication. In the M phase, RAD52 promotes the finalization of DNA replication. Its compensatory role in the resolution of DNA double-strand breaks has put RAD52 in the focus of synthetic lethal strategies, which is particularly relevant for cancer treatment.

Indexed as

common fragile siteDNA double-strand break repairfork reversalgenome integritynucleasesR loopsstalled replication forktelomeres

Identifiers

PMID32192055
PMCPMC7140074
OpenAlexW3011882719

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