CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

Cell cycle on the crossroad of tumorigenesis and cancer therapy

J Liu, Y Peng, W Wei - Trends in cell biology, 2022 - cell.com
Aberrancy in cell cycle progression is one of the fundamental mechanisms underlying
tumorigenesis, making regulators of the cell cycle machinery rational anticancer therapeutic …

CDK4 and CDK6 kinases: From basic science to cancer therapy

A Fassl, Y Geng, P Sicinski - Science, 2022 - science.org
BACKGROUND Cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) drive cell division. Of
particular importance to the cancer field are D-cyclins, which activate CDK4 and CDK6. In …

Revolutionizing DNA repair research and cancer therapy with CRISPR–Cas screens

SW Awwad, A Serrano-Benitez, JC Thomas… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
All organisms possess molecular mechanisms that govern DNA repair and associated DNA
damage response (DDR) processes. Owing to their relevance to human disease, most …

The roles of E3 ubiquitin ligases in cancer progression and targeted therapy

C Sampson, Q Wang, W Otkur, H Zhao… - Clinical and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ubiquitination is one of the most important post‐translational modifications which plays a
significant role in conserving the homeostasis of cellular proteins. In the ubiquitination …

Sensitization of cancer cells to ferroptosis coincident with cell cycle arrest

J Rodencal, N Kim, A He, VL Li, M Lange, J He… - Cell chemical …, 2024 - cell.com
Ferroptosis is a non-apoptotic form of cell death that can be triggered by inhibiting the
system xc− cystine/glutamate antiporter or the phospholipid hydroperoxidase glutathione …

Leveraging the replication stress response to optimize cancer therapy

E Cybulla, A Vindigni - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
High-fidelity DNA replication is critical for the faithful transmission of genetic information to
daughter cells. Following genotoxic stress, specialized DNA damage tolerance pathways …

AMBRA1 regulates cyclin D to guard S-phase entry and genomic integrity

E Maiani, G Milletti, F Nazio, SG Holdgaard, J Bartkova… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Mammalian development, adult tissue homeostasis and the avoidance of severe diseases
including cancer require a properly orchestrated cell cycle, as well as error-free genome …

[HTML][HTML] A perspective on the role of autophagy in cancer

AR Ariosa, V Lahiri, Y Lei, Y Yang, Z Yin… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Autophagy refers to a ubiquitous set of catabolic pathways required to achieve proper
cellular homeostasis. Aberrant autophagy has been implicated in a multitude of diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer takes many paths through G1/S

ES Knudsen, AK Witkiewicz, SM Rubin - Trends in Cell Biology, 2024 - cell.com
In the commonly accepted paradigm for control of the mammalian cell cycle, sequential
cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) and cyclin activities drive the orderly transition from G1 to S …