Deubiquitinases in cancer

G Dewson, PJA Eichhorn, D Komander - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Ubiquitination is an essential regulator of most, if not all, signalling pathways, and defects in
cellular signalling are central to cancer initiation, progression and, eventually, metastasis …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting the ubiquitin–proteasome system and recent advances in Cancer Therapy

D Spano, G Catara - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ubiquitination is a reversible post-translational modification based on the chemical addition
of ubiquitin to proteins with regulatory effects on various signaling pathways. Ubiquitination …

New horizons of synthetic lethality in cancer: current development and future perspectives

V Previtali, G Bagnolini, A Ciamarone… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In recent years, synthetic lethality has been recognized as a solid paradigm for anticancer
therapies. The discovery of a growing number of synthetic lethal targets has led to a …

USP1-dependent nucleolytic expansion of PRIMPOL-generated nascent DNA strand discontinuities during replication stress

A Nusawardhana, LM Pale, CM Nicolae… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
DNA replication stress-induced fork arrest represents a significant threat to genomic
integrity. One major mechanism of replication restart involves repriming downstream of the …

Structural and biochemical insights into the mechanism of action of the clinical USP1 inhibitor, KSQ-4279

ML Rennie, M Gundogdu, C Arkinson… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
DNA damage triggers cell signaling cascades that mediate repair. This signaling is
frequently dysregulated in cancers. The proteins that mediate this signaling are potential …

The USP1 Inhibitor KSQ-4279 Overcomes PARP Inhibitor Resistance in Homologous Recombination–Deficient Tumors

L Cadzow, J Brenneman, E Tobin, P Sullivan… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Defects in DNA repair pathways play a pivotal role in tumor evolution and resistance to
therapy. At the same time, they create vulnerabilities that render tumors dependent on the …

Single-stranded DNA gap accumulation is a functional biomarker for USP1 inhibitor sensitivity

AA da Costa, O Somuncu, R Ravindranathan… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Recent studies suggest that PARP and POLQ inhibitors confer synthetic lethality in BRCA1-
deficient tumors by accumulation of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) gaps at replication forks …

Role of translesion DNA synthesis in the metabolism of replication-associated nascent strand gaps

JB Khatib, CM Nicolae, GL Moldovan - Journal of molecular biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) is a DNA damage tolerance pathway utilized by cells to
overcome lesions encountered throughout DNA replication. During replication stress, cancer …

USP1 deubiquitinates PARP1 to regulate its trap** and PARylation activity

A Nespolo, L Stefenatti, I Pellarin, A Gambelli… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
PARP inhibitors (PARPi) represent a game-changing treatment for patients with ovarian
cancer with tumors deficient for the homologous recombination (HR) pathway treated with …

KR4SL: knowledge graph reasoning for explainable prediction of synthetic lethality

K Zhang, M Wu, Y Liu, Y Feng, J Zheng - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Synthetic lethality (SL) is a promising strategy for anticancer therapy, as inhibiting
SL partners of genes with cancer-specific mutations can selectively kill the cancer cells …