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Context dependence of checkpoint kinase 1 as a therapeutic target for pancreatic cancers deficient in the BRCA2 tumor suppressor.
Molecular cancer therapeutics - 1 Apr 2011
Hattori Hiroyoshi, Skoulidis Ferdinandos, Russell Paul, Venkitaraman Ashok R
Abstract excerpt
Inherited mutations in the tumor suppressor BRCA2 are predisposed to pancreatic adenocarcinomas, which carry activating mutations in the KRAS oncogene in more than 95% of cases, as well as frequent TP53 inactivation. Here, we have established an RNA interference (RNAi) screen to identify genes whose depletion selectively inhibits the growth of cells lacking BRCA2, and then studied the effects of the genetic...
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