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Synthetic lethality of PARP inhibition in cancers lacking<i>BRCA1</i>and<i>BRCA2</i>mutations
15 Apr 2011
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Utilizing the concept of synthetic lethality has provided new opportunities for the development of targeted therapies, by allowing the targeting of loss of function genetic aberrations. In cancer cells with BRCA1 or BRCA2 loss of function, which harbor deficiency of DNA repair by homologous recombination, inhibition of PARP1 enzymatic activity leads to an accumulation of single strand breaks that are converted to...
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