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TY - CHAP
T1 - Cancer Therapy and Replication Stress
T2 - Forks on the Road to Perdition
AU - Kotsantis, P.
AU - Jones, R.M.
AU - Higgs, M.R.
AU - Petermann, E.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Deregulated DNA replication occurs in cancer where it contributes to genomic instability. This process is a target of cytotoxic therapies. Chemotherapies exploit high DNA replication in cancer cells by modifying the DNA template or by inhibiting vital enzymatic activities that lead to slowing or stalling replication fork progression. Stalled replication forks can be converted into toxic DNA double-strand breaks resulting in cell death, i.e., replication stress. While likely crucial for many cancer treatments, replication stress is poorly understood due to its complexity. While we still know relatively little about the role of replication stress in cancer therapy, technical advances in recent years have shed new light on the effect that cancer therapeutics have on replication forks and the molecular mechanisms that lead from obstructed fork progression to cell death. This chapter will give an overview of our current understanding of replication stress in the context of cancer therapy.
AB - Deregulated DNA replication occurs in cancer where it contributes to genomic instability. This process is a target of cytotoxic therapies. Chemotherapies exploit high DNA replication in cancer cells by modifying the DNA template or by inhibiting vital enzymatic activities that lead to slowing or stalling replication fork progression. Stalled replication forks can be converted into toxic DNA double-strand breaks resulting in cell death, i.e., replication stress. While likely crucial for many cancer treatments, replication stress is poorly understood due to its complexity. While we still know relatively little about the role of replication stress in cancer therapy, technical advances in recent years have shed new light on the effect that cancer therapeutics have on replication forks and the molecular mechanisms that lead from obstructed fork progression to cell death. This chapter will give an overview of our current understanding of replication stress in the context of cancer therapy.
U2 - 10.1016/bs.acc.2014.12.003
DO - 10.1016/bs.acc.2014.12.003
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780128022658
T3 - Advances in Clinical Chemsitry
SP - 91
EP - 138
BT - Advances in Clinical Chemistry
A2 - Makowski, Gregory S.
PB - Elsevier
ER -