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Ref Type | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
PMID | (25512053) | ||||||||||||
Authors | Weber AM, Ryan AJ | ||||||||||||
Title | ATM and ATR as therapeutic targets in cancer. | ||||||||||||
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Abstract Text | In order to maintain genomic stability, cells have developed sophisticated signalling pathways to enable DNA damage or DNA replication stress to be resolved. Key mediators of this DNA damage response (DDR) are the ATM and ATR kinases, which induce cell cycle arrest and facilitate DNA repair via their downstream targets. Inhibiting the DDR has become an attractive therapeutic concept in cancer therapy, since (i) resistance to genotoxic therapies has been associated with increased DDR signalling, and (ii) many cancers have defects in certain components of the DDR rendering them highly dependent on the remaining DDR pathways for survival. ATM and ATR act as the apical regulators of the response to DNA double strand breaks and replication stress, respectively, with overlapping but non-redundant activities. Highly selective small molecule inhibitors of ATM and ATR are currently in preclinical and clinical development, respectively. Preclinical data have provided a strong rationale for clinical testing of these compounds both in combination with radio- or chemotherapy, and in synthetic lethal approaches to treat tumours with deficiencies in certain DDR components. Whole genome sequencing studies have reported that mutations in DDR genes occur with a high frequency in many common tumour types, suggesting that a synthetic lethal approach with ATM or ATR inhibitors could have widespread utility, providing that appropriate biomarkers are developed. |
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ATR over exp | ATR Inhibitor |
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ATR | NCBI | FCTCS|FRP1|MEC1|SCKL|SCKL1 | ATR, ATR serine/threonine kinase, is involved in regulation of the DNA damage response and mediation of cell-cycle checkpoints (PMID: 25512053). Loss of function ATR mutations have been identified in melanoma (PMID: 28273450), and inhibition of Atr selectively sensitizes cancerous cells to radiation and chemotherapy (PMID: 23583268, PMID: 31836456, PMID: 29054375). | Tumor suppressor |
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