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Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 inhibition: preclinical and clinical development of synthetic lethality.
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Jan 2011
Leung Mary, Rosen David, Fields Scott, Cesano Alessandra, Budman Daniel R
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The hereditary forms of breast cancer identified by BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have a defect in homologous DNA repair and demonstrate a dependence on alternate DNA repair processes by base excision repair, which requires poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP-1). siRNA and deletion mutations demonstrate that interference with PARP-1 function results in enhanced cell death when the malignancy has a defect in homologous...
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