ArticleScience advances2026
Hemizygous loss of helicases promotes genomic instability and cancer development.
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Abstract
Cancer mutations perturb key processes, driving uncontrolled cell proliferation. With critical roles of enzymes in cell function and growth, we hypothesized that cancer driver mutations alter specific and recurrent enzymatic functions. Leveraging large pan-cancer genomic datasets and curated mutation catalogs, we identified frequent mutations in helicases, enzymes involved in nucleic acid unwinding and processing. Helicases emerged as the most commonly mutated cancer driver enzyme family, altered in two-thirds of all cancers. Functional screens and genomic analyses revealed that helicase dysfunctions contribute to genomic instability and faulty DNA repair. We observed a marked phenotype of Aquarius helicase (
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