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Nat Cancer. 2021 Jun;2(6):598-610. doi: 10.1038/s43018-021-00203-x. Epub 2021 Jun 17.

A first-in-class Polymerase Theta Inhibitor selectively targets Homologous-Recombination-Deficient Tumors.

Nature cancer

Jia Zhou, Camille Gelot, Constantia Pantelidou, Adam Li, Hatice Yücel, Rachel E Davis, Anniina Farkkila, Bose Kochupurakkal, Aleem Syed, Geoffrey I Shapiro, John A Tainer, Brian S J Blagg, Raphael Ceccaldi, Alan D D'Andrea

Affiliations

  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
  2. Inserm U830, PSL Research University, Institut Curie, 75005, Paris, France.
  3. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  4. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
  5. Departments of Cancer Biology and of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
  6. Center for DNA Damage and Repair, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
  7. Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 34179826 PMCID: PMC8224818 DOI: 10.1038/s43018-021-00203-x

Abstract

DNA polymerase theta (POLθ) is synthetic lethal with Homologous Recombination (HR) deficiency and thus a candidate target for HR-deficient cancers. Through high-throughput small molecule screens we identified the antibiotic Novobiocin (NVB) as a specific POLθ inhibitor that selectively kills HR-deficient tumor cells

Keywords: Fanconi Anemia; HRD cancer; Homologous Recombination; MMEJ; Novobiocin; PARP inhibitor resistance; Polymerase theta (POLθ)

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