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ReviewExperimental & molecular medicine2021

Aurora kinase A, a synthetic lethal target for precision cancer medicine.

Pui Kei Mou, Eun Ju Yang, Changxiang Shi, Guowen Ren, Shishi Tao, Joong Sup Shim

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Review in Experimental & molecular medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers.

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81citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

81 citing papers in PubMed, 150 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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pui Kei MouCancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR, China.
Eun Ju YangCancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR, China.
Changxiang ShiCancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR, China.
Guowen RenCancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR, China.
Shishi TaoCancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR, China.
Joong Sup ShimCancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR, China. jsshim@um.edu.mo.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0167-7307
University of Macau · MO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies and data science have facilitated the development of precision medicine to treat cancer patients. Synthetic lethality is one of the core methodologies employed in precision cancer medicine. Synthetic lethality describes the phenomenon of the interplay between two genes in which deficiency of a single gene does not abolish cell viability but combined deficiency of two genes leads to cell death. In cancer treatment, synthetic lethality is leveraged to exploit the dependency of cancer cells on a pathway that is essential for cell survival when a tumor suppressor is mutated. This approach enables pharmacological targeting of mutant tumor suppressors that are theoretically undruggable. Successful clinical introduction of BRCA-PARP synthetic lethality in cancer treatment led to additional discoveries of novel synthetic lethal partners of other tumor suppressors, including p53, PTEN, and RB1, using high-throughput screening. Recent work has highlighted aurora kinase A (AURKA) as a synthetic lethal partner of multiple tumor suppressors. AURKA is a serine/threonine kinase involved in a number of central biological processes, such as the G2/M transition, mitotic spindle assembly, and DNA replication. This review introduces synthetic lethal interactions between AURKA and its tumor suppressor partners and discusses the potential of AURKA inhibitors in precision cancer medicine.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorSynthetic Lethal MutationsAnimalsAurora Kinase AClinical Trials as TopicDisease SusceptibilityDrug DevelopmentDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasmsPrecision MedicineProtein Kinase InhibitorsSignal TransductionTreatment OutcomeAURKA protein, humanAurora Kinase ABiomarkers, TumorProtein Kinase Inhibitors

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PMID34050264
PMCPMC8178373
OpenAlexW3164970590

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