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Selective killing of ATM- or p53-deficient cancer cells through inhibition of ATR
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Here we report a comprehensive biological characterization of a potent and selective small-molecule inhibitor of the DNA damage response (DDR) kinase ATR. We show a profound synthetic lethal interaction between ATR and the ATM-p53 tumor suppressor pathway in cells treated with DNA-damaging agents and establish ATR inhibition as a way to transform the outcome for patients with cancer treated with ionizing radiation or genotoxic drugs.
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“an association of TP53-deficiency and sensitivity to ATR inhibitors has been described as profound synthetic lethality (Reaper et al., 2011;Toledo et al., 2011)”
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“Where required, ATR activity was inhibited using 5 μM VE-821 (SML1415; Sigma-Aldrich) for 16 hrs [14, 23].”
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BackgroundResistance to DNA repair inhibitors in cancer
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BackgroundTargeting ATR in cancer medicine
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“KU-55933 (42) and VE-821 (43) were used to selectively disrupt ATM or ATR kinase activity, respectively.”
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BackgroundInherited DNA lesions determine G1 duration in the next cell cycle
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“Indeed, p53 deficiency was previously shown to confer hyper-sensitivity to ATR inhibition or ATR depletion.(37) Thus,”
BackgroundATR maintains select progenitors during nervous system development
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“To test their involvement in nickHR, we applied chemical inhibitors KU55933 (ATM) and VE-821 (ATR) to transfected U2OSDR-GFP cells.”
MethodTranslational and clinical implications of the genetic landscape of prostate cancer
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“ATR specific inhibitor (VE-821) [34], but not ATM inhibitor, impaired the formation of both FA core complex and FANCD2 foci (Fig 3B and S3C, S6C and S6D Fig), indicating that ATR kinase activity is required for FA core complex foci formation.”
BackgroundTargeting the DNA Damage Response to Overcome Cancer Drug Resistance in Glioblastoma
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“As ATM loss-of-function mutations are synthetically lethal with interference with ATR signaling (26), we hypothesized that inhibition of BUB1 kinase could be synthetically lethal with ATR kinase inhibition aswell.”
BackgroundNek1 kinase associates with ATR–ATRIP and primes ATR for efficient DNA damage signaling
Liu, S., Ho, C. K., Ouyang, J., & Zou, L. (2013) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1217781110 · Cited by 76
“The effectiveness of VE-821 was confirmed by the dephosphorylation of Chk1 Ser-345.”
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“Secondly, VE-821, VE-822, NU6027 and AZ-20 have been identified as being ATR inhibitors (Charrier et al., 2011; Peasland et al., 2011; Reaper et al., 2011; Fokas et al., 2012; Jacq et al., 2012) (Figure 8).”
BackgroundATM Dysfunction in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma and Associated Therapeutic Implications
Armstrong, S. A., Schultz, C. W., Azimi-Sadjadi, A., Brody, J. R., & Pishvaian, M. J. (2019) · Molecular Cancer Therapeutics · doi:10.1158/1535-7163.mct-19-0208 · Cited by 78
“The ATR inhibitor VE-821 sensitizes cancer cells but not normal cells to chemotherapy (87), and these effects were synergistic in ATM-deficient cells (87).”
BackgroundTargeting ATM and ATR for cancer therapeutics: Inhibitors in clinic
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“The concept of “synthetic lethality” as exemplified by the introduction of PARP1 inhibitors into treatment of patients with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations may also prove useful in the development of other compounds to target additional genetic predispositions [156-158].”
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“Several key studies demonstrated that genetic inactivation of ATR leads to synthetic lethality in ATM or TP53 mutated tumors, paving the way to use of small-molecule ATR inhibitors (ATRi) [11,12].”
BackgroundA patient-derived-xenograft platform to study BRCA-deficient ovarian cancers
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“Cell-cycle dysregulation contributes to RS,with reports suggesting selective toxicity of ATR and CHK1 inhibitors in TP53-defective cells (30, 31).”
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“In order to systematically study the role of all three PI3K-like kinases in shaping the p53 response, we used well-characterized small molecule inhibitors (KU-55933 - ATMi, VE-821 ATRi and NU 7026 - DNA-PKi) and confirmed their specificity using western blot analysis (Supplementary Figure S1F) (Hickson, 2004; Reaper e…”
MethodMolecular mechanism and potential target indication of TAK-931, a novel CDC7-selective inhibitor
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ATM and ATR Activities Maintain Replication Fork Integrity during SV40 Chromatin Replication
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Metadata
- Authors
- Reaper, P. M., Griffiths, M. R., Long, J. M., Charrier, J.-D., MacCormick, S., Charlton, P. A., Golec, J. M. C., & Pollard, J. R.
- Affiliations
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Pollard, John R
- Venue
- Nature Chemical Biology
- Published
- 2011-04-13
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 428-430
- ISSN
- 1552-4450 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-4469
- OpenAlex
- W2022529631
- Cited by
- 633
- References
- 25
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- FWCI
- 14.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Chemical Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › DNA Repair Mechanisms
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › PARP inhibition in cancer therapy
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
- Keywords
- ATR inhibitors, synthetic lethality, ATM, p53, DNA damage response, radiosensitivity, DNA-damaging agents, small-molecule kinase inhibitors, tumor cell killing, tumor suppressor pathways
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Antineoplastic Agents, DNA Damage, DNA-Binding Proteins, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Fibroblasts, Humans, Pyrazines, Sulfones, Molecular Structure, Tumor Suppressor Protein p53, Cell Death, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Cell Cycle Proteins, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Proliferation, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins
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