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Therapeutic targeting of constitutive PARP activation compromises stem cell phenotype and survival of glioblastoma-initiating cells.
Cell death and differentiation - 1 Feb 2014
Venere M, Hamerlik P, Wu Q, Rasmussen R D, Song L A, Vasanji A, Tenley N, Flavahan W A, Hjelmeland A B, Bartek J, Rich J N
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Glioblastoma-initiating cells (GICs) are self-renewing tumorigenic sub-populations, contributing to therapeutic resistance via decreased sensitivity to ionizing radiation (IR). GIC survival following IR is attributed to an augmented response to genotoxic stress. We now report that GICs are primed to handle additional stress due to basal activation of single-strand break repair (SSBR), the main DNA damage response...
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