scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

Targeting the DNA Damage Response in Cancer

Mark J. O'Connor
- 19 Nov 2015 - 
- Vol. 60, Iss: 4, pp 547-560
TLDR
The recent approval of olaparib (Lynparza) represents the first medicine based on this principle, exploiting an underlying cause of tumor formation that also represents an Achilles' heel.
About
This article is published in Molecular Cell.The article was published on 2015-11-19 and is currently open access. It has received 964 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Olaparib & Targeted therapy.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

ATM, ATR, and DNA-PK: The Trinity at the Heart of the DNA Damage Response.

TL;DR: A historical perspective of their discovery is provided and their established functions in sensing and responding to genotoxic stress are discussed, as well as emerging non-canonical roles and how knowledge of ATM, ATR, and DNA-PK is being translated to benefit human health.
Journal ArticleDOI

Olaparib for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

TL;DR: In men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who had disease progression while receiving enzalutamide or abiraterone and who had alterations in genes with a role in homologous recombination repair, olaparib was associated with longer progression-free survival and better measures of response and patient-reported end points than either enzalUTamide or monotherapy.
Journal ArticleDOI

State-of-the-art strategies for targeting the DNA damage response in cancer

TL;DR: The authors review the progress made to date with PARP inhibitors, describe the expanding landscape of novel anticancer therapies targeting the DNA damage response and potential predictive biomarkers, mechanisms of resistance and combinatorial strategies are discussed.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Targeting the DNA repair defect in BRCA mutant cells as a therapeutic strategy

TL;DR: BRCA1 or BRCA2 dysfunction unexpectedly and profoundly sensitizes cells to the inhibition of PARP enzymatic activity, resulting in chromosomal instability, cell cycle arrest and subsequent apoptosis, illustrating how different pathways cooperate to repair damage.
Journal ArticleDOI

The DNA-damage response in human biology and disease

TL;DR: The authors' improving understanding of DNA-damage responses is providing new avenues for disease management, and these responses are biologically significant because they prevent diverse human diseases.
Journal ArticleDOI

Specific killing of BRCA2-deficient tumours with inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase

TL;DR: It is proposed that, in the absence of PARP1, spontaneous single-strand breaks collapse replication forks and trigger homologous recombination for repair and exploited in order to kill BRCA2-deficient tumours by PARP inhibition alone.
Related Papers (5)