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Targeting Mitosis in Cancer: Emerging Strategies

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Dominguez-Brauer, Carmen, Thu, Kelsie L., Mason, Jacqueline M., Blaser, Heiko, Bray, Mark R., Mak, Tak W.·2015·Molecular Cell

Abstract

The cell cycle is an evolutionarily conserved process necessary for mammalian cell growth and development. Because cell-cycle aberrations are a hallmark of cancer, this process has been the target of anti-cancer therapeutics for decades. However, despite numerous clinical trials, cell-cycle-targeting agents have generally failed in the clinic. This review briefly examines past cell-cycle-targeted therapeutics and outlines how experience with these agents has provided valuable insight to refine and improve anti-mitotic strategies. An overview of emerging anti-mitotic approaches with promising pre-clinical results is provided, and the concept of exploiting the genomic instability of tumor cells through therapeutic inhibition of mitotic checkpoints is discussed. We believe this strategy has a high likelihood of success given its potential to enhance therapeutic index by targeting tumor-specific vulnerabilities. This reasoning stimulated our development of novel inhibitors targeting the critical regulators of genomic stability and the mitotic checkpoint: AURKA, PLK4, and Mps1/TTK.

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  • Mitotic defects can derive from exogenous xenobiotics and endogenous replication/mitotic stress.

    “Mitotic defects can derive from: (1) exogenous sources, including a large panel of xenobiotics that alter DNA replication, cell cycle checkpoints, chromosome segregation, and/or microtubular dynamics [976]; or (2) endogenous sources, such as high levels of DNA replication stress or mitotic stress caused by an aberrant ploidy or by deregulated expression/activity of factors involved in DNA”

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Authors
Dominguez-Brauer, C., Thu, K. L., Mason, J. M., Blaser, H., Bray, M. R., & Mak, T. W.
Affiliations
University Health Network (CA)
Corresponding author
Mak, Tak W.
Venue
Molecular Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-11
Volume
60
Issue
4
Pages
524-536
ISSN
1097-2765 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2179237675
Cited by
495
References
135
Citations by year
2026: 31 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 60 · 2018: 64 · 2017: 33 · 2016: 25
FWCI
4.06
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Molecular Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Synthesis and biological activity
Keywords
mitosis, antimitotic agents, cell cycle, cancer therapy, spindle assembly checkpoint, genomic instability, AURKA, PLK4
MeSH terms
Animals, Antineoplastic Agents, Humans, Mitosis, Neoplasms, Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Cell Cycle Proteins, Genomic Instability, Molecular Targeted Therapy, Aurora Kinase A

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