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ReviewCancers2023

Novel Insights into RAD52's Structure, Function, and Druggability for Synthetic Lethality and Innovative Anticancer Therapies.

Beatrice Balboni, Francesco Rinaldi, Viola Previtali, Andrea Ciamarone, Stefania Girotto, Andrea Cavalli

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Review in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. A structural phylogenetic tree of Rad52 and its annealase superfamily.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Beatrice BalboniComputational and Chemical Biology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy.
Francesco RinaldiComputational and Chemical Biology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy.
Viola PrevitaliComputational and Chemical Biology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5396-336X
Andrea CiamaroneComputational and Chemical Biology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy.
Stefania GirottoComputational and Chemical Biology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0339-6675
Andrea CavalliComputational and Chemical Biology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy.
Italian Institute of Technology · IT

Funding

Italian Association for Cancer Research IG 2018 Id.21386
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, the RAD52 protein has been highlighted as a mediator of many DNA repair mechanisms. While RAD52 was initially considered to be a non-essential auxiliary factor, its inhibition has more recently been demonstrated to be synthetically lethal in cancer cells bearing mutations and inactivation of specific intracellular pathways, such as homologous recombination. RAD52 is now recognized as a novel and critical pharmacological target. In this review, we comprehensively describe the available structural and functional information on RAD52. The review highlights the pathways in which RAD52 is involved and the approaches to RAD52 inhibition. We discuss the multifaceted role of this protein, which has a complex, dynamic, and functional 3D superstructural arrangement. This complexity reinforces the need to further investigate and characterize RAD52 to solve a challenging mechanistic puzzle and pave the way for a robust drug discovery campaign.

Indexed as

drug discoveryprecision medicineRAD52synthetic lethality

Identifiers

PMID36980703
PMCPMC10046612
OpenAlexW4327736940

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