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Synthetic lethality in malignant pleural mesothelioma with PARP1 inhibition.
Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology - 1 Oct 2017
Srinivasan Gayathri, Sidhu Gurjit Singh, Williamson Elizabeth A, Jaiswal Aruna S, Najmunnisa Nasreen, Wilcoxen Keith, Jones Dennie, George Thomas J, Hromas Robert
Abstract excerpt
Malignant pleural mesotheliomas (MPM) are most often surgically unresectable, and they respond poorly to current chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Between 23 and 64% of malignant pleural mesothelioma have somatic inactivating mutations in the BAP1 gene. BAP1 is a homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair component found in the BRCA1/BARD1 complex. Similar to BRCA1/2 deficient cancers, mutation in the BAP1 gene...
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