Targeting Mitosis in Cancer: Emerging Strategies
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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
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- 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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