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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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ATR inhibition sensitizes HPV− and HPV+ head and neck squamous cell carcinoma to cisplatin
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“A, HNSCC cell lines were transfected with nontargeting siRNA (siNT) or siRNAs directed against ATR, ATM, or p53 mRNAs, as described in Materials and Methods.”
BackgroundInfluentialQuantitative Chemical Proteomic Profiling of Ubiquitin Specific Proteases in Intact Cancer Cells
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ATR Restrains DNA Synthesis and Mitotic Catastrophe in Response to CDC7 Inhibition
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ATR inhibition enables complete tumour regression in ALK-driven NB mouse models
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“Preclinical studies found that ATRis induced both chemo-and radiosensitization (63–69).”
TP53 mutations increase radioresistance in rhabdomyosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma
Casey, D. L., Pitter, K. L., Wexler, L. H., Slotkin, E. K., Gupta, G. P., & Wolden, S. L. (2021) · British Journal of Cancer · doi:10.1038/s41416-021-01438-2 · Cited by 51
“Accordingly, inhibition of CHK1 has been shown to selectively overcome the radioresistance of TP53 mutated cells in response to radiation and other DNA damaging agents; and ATR inhibitors have also been shown to induce synthetic lethality in TP53 disruptive cells.(27,28) Other strategies to mitigate radioresistance ma…”
BackgroundExploiting the p53 Pathway for TherapyPreprint
Cheok, C. F., & Lane, D. P. (2017) · Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine · doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a026310 · Cited by 53
“…in genotoxicity in the p53-deficient cells toward radiation and different genotoxic agents, including cisplatin, campthothecin, and doxorubicin, as a consequence of the combined loss of G1 and G2/M checkpoints (Russell et al. 1995; Wang et al. 1996; Nghiem et al. 2001, 2002; Reaper et al. 2011).”
BackgroundInfluentialJette, N., Radhamani, S., Arthur, G., Ye, R., Goutam, S., Bolyos, A., Petersen, L. F., Bose, P., Bebb, D. G., & Lees‐Miller, S. P. (2019) · British Journal of Cancer · doi:10.1038/s41416-019-0565-8 · Cited by 50
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“(B) Cell survival after 72 h in the absence (untreated = UT) or the presence of 10 µM KU-55933, 5 µM VE-821, or both.”
ResultInfluentialDiverse roles of RAD18 and Y-family DNA polymerases in tumorigenesis
Yang, Y., Gao, Y., Zlatanou, A., Tateishi, S., Yurchenko, V., Rogozin, I. B., & Vaziri, C. (2018) · Cell Cycle · doi:10.1080/15384101.2018.1456296 · Cited by 52
“ATR inhibitors sensitize tumor cells to overexpressed Cyclin E [102] and therapeutic genotoxins notably platinating agents [103,104].”
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“The very first ATR antagonist to enter human anti-cancer therapeutic studies was VX-970 (VE-822), a powerful selective intravenous ATR blocker [102].”
BackgroundLeszczyńska, K. B., Dobrynin, G., Leslie, R. E., Ient, J., Boumelha, A. J., Senra, J. M., Hawkins, M., Maughan, T., Mukherjee, S., & Hammond, E. M. (2016) · Radiotherapy and Oncology · doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2016.10.023 · Cited by 48
“In addition, ATR inhibition has been shown to be particularly cytotoxic to tumor cells with a deficiency in the ATM or p53 pathway [3,7].”
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“This chemical is also known to inhibit chk1 phosphorylation [10, 11].”
BackgroundATM/Wip1 activities at chromatin control Plk1 re‐activation to determine G2 checkpoint duration
Jaiswal, H., Benada, J., Müllers, E., Akopyan, K., Burdová, K., Koolmeister, T., Helleday, T., Medema, R. H., Macůrek, L., & Lindqvist, A. (2017) · The EMBO Journal · doi:10.15252/embj.201696082 · Cited by 45
“Key targets of Chk1/Chk2/MK2 are Cdc25 phosphatases and their degradation or functional inactivation results in a rapid decrease in Cdk1 activity and suppression of cell cycle progression (Peng et al , 1997; Mailand et al , 2000; Reinhardt et al , 2007).”
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“Volasertib (23), Irinotecan, KU-55933 (24), VE-821 (25), Alisertib (26), Barasertib (27), MK8776 (28), NU7441 (29), Palbociclib, Carboplatin, and Imatinib were purchased from SelleckChem.”
REV 7 confers radioresistance of esophagus squamous cell carcinoma by recruiting PRDX 2
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ATM protein is deficient in over 40% of lung adenocarcinomas
Villaruz, L. C., Jones, H., Đačić, S., Abberbock, S. R., Kurland, B. F., Stabile, L. P., Siegfried, J. M., Conrads, T. P., Smith, N. R., O’Connor, M. J., et al. (2016) · Oncotarget · doi:10.18632/oncotarget.9757 · Cited by 46
“Lung cancer cell lines are sensitized to cisplatin by ATR kinase inhibitors in vitro and in cell line and patient derived xenografts (PDX) in vivo [16, 17, 36, 37].”
BackgroundTargeting the DNA Damage Response for the Treatment of High Risk Neuroblastoma
Southgate, H. E. D., Chen, L., Curtin, N. J., & Tweddle, D. A. (2020) · Frontiers in Oncology · doi:10.3389/fonc.2020.00371 · Cited by 48
“Both amplification of MYCN and impaired ATM function, which result in replication stress and defects in G1 cell cycle control, are known determinants of sensitivity to ATR inhibitors (105, 136).”
BackgroundRass, E., Chandramouly, G., Zha, S., Alt, F. W., & Xie, A. (2013) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.m112.445825 · Cited by 43
“Thus, we used the newly developed, potent ATR inhibitor VE821 to assess the effect of ATR inhibition on IR-induced H2AX phosphorylation (42).”
MethodTargeting DNA double-strand break signalling and repair: recent advances in cancer therapy
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“2B, lanes 13 and 23), as has been observed in another study (37).”
ResultMEK inhibitors block growth of lung tumours with mutations in ataxia–telangiectasia mutated
Smida, M., Fece de la Cruz, F., Kerzendorfer, C., Uras, I. Z., Mair, B., Mazouzi, A., Suchankova, T., Konopka, T., Katz, A. M., Paz, K., et al. (2016) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms13701 · Cited by 44
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Genomic and Clinicopathologic Characterization of ATM -deficient Prostate Cancer
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“However, several potent and relatively specific ATR inhibitors have been characterized and have shown synthetic lethal activity in ATM-deficient tumors in vitro and in early clinical trials (18, 19).”
BackgroundGralewska, P., Gajek, A., Marczak, A., Mikuła, M., Ostrowski, J., Śliwińska, A., & Rogalska, A. (2020) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences · doi:10.3390/ijms21249715 · Cited by 45
“Combination treatment with two compounds, PARPi and CHK1i, had a significantly greater cytotoxic effect, decreasing colony formation ability to a greater extent than either drug alone in BRCA2MUT cells compared with BRCAWT.”
BackgroundInfluentialSynthetic Lethality in Ovarian Cancer
Chandrasekaran, A., & Elias, K. M. (2021) · Molecular Cancer Therapeutics · doi:10.1158/1535-7163.mct-21-0500 · Cited by 41
“16 (69), components of the PI3-kinase signaling pathway (70), the DNA-damage checkpoint kinase 363 CHK1 (71,72), and a key determinant of replication fork stability, ATR (ataxia telangiectasia and 364 RAD3-related) (73,74).”
BackgroundBurris, H. A., Berlin, J. D., Arkenau, H., Cote, G. M., Lolkema, M. P., Ferrer-Playan, J., Kalapur, A., Bolleddula, J., Locatelli, G., Goddemeier, T., et al. (2024) · British Journal of Cancer · doi:10.1038/s41416-023-02436-2 · Cited by 44
DNA Replication Stress and Cancer: Cause or Cure?
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“In line with this finding, inhibition of ATR/ATM or Chk1/Chk2 was found to delay the onset of replicative senescence [24].”
BackgroundInfluentialModulation of DNA repair by pharmacological inhibitors of the PIKK protein kinase family
Finlay, M. R. V., & Griffin, R. J. (2012) · Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters · doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2012.06.053 · Cited by 40
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“For example, p532 cells have been found to be particularly sensitive to pharmacological inhibition of ATR (see, for example, [42–44]).”
BackgroundHocke, S., Guo, Y., Job, A., Orth, M., Ziesch, A., Lauber, K., Toni, E. N. D., Gress, T. M., Herbst, A., Göke, B., et al. (2016) · Oncotarget · doi:10.18632/oncotarget.6857 · Cited by 40
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“In a large proportion of cancer cells, where ATM-p53 signaling is defective, initiation of DNA replication continues and DNA damage accumulates, leading to cell death (72).”
BackgroundPhase 1b study of berzosertib and cisplatin in patients with advanced triple-negative breast cancer
Telli, M. L., Tolaney, S. M., Shapiro, G. I., Middleton, M. R., Lord, S., Arkenau, H., Tutt, A. N. J., Abramson, V. G., Dean, E. J., Haddad, T. C., et al. (2022) · npj Breast Cancer · doi:10.1038/s41523-022-00406-0 · Cited by 40
Synthetic Lethal Vulnerabilities of Cancer
de la Cruz, F. F., Gapp, B. V., & Nijman, S. M. B. (2014) · The Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology · doi:10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-010814-124511 · Cited by 43
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ATR inhibition rewires cellular signaling networks induced by replication stress
Wagner, S., Oehler, H., Voigt, A., Dalic, D., Freiwald, A., Serve, H. L., & Beli, P. (2015) · PROTEOMICS · doi:10.1002/pmic.201500172 · Cited by 40
“Furthermore, we used a specific ATR inhibitor VE-821 to decipher how ATR inhibition affects cellular signaling after replication stress and to identify phosphorylation sites that are targeted by ATR [42].”
MethodThe Impact of p53 Dysfunction in ATR Inhibitor Cytotoxicity and Chemo- and Radiosensitisation
Middleton, F. K., Pollard, J. R., & Curtin, N. J. (2018) · Cancers · doi:10.3390/cancers10080275 · Cited by 39
“Similarly, in isogenic cell lines ATR inhibitors potentiated cisplatin to a greater extent in cells where p53 had been knocked down or degraded [7].”
BackgroundMethodSunada, S., Kanai, H., Lee, Y., Yasuda, T., Hirakawa, H., Liu, C., Fujimori, A., Uesaka, M., & Okayasu, R. (2016) · Cancer Science · doi:10.1111/cas.12998 · Cited by 38
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“Synthetic lethal approach is a promising therapy strategy for cancer treatment [39,43,44].”
BackgroundDNA Repair: Translation to the Clinic
Minten, E. V., & Yu, D. S. (2019) · Clinical Oncology · doi:10.1016/j.clon.2019.02.007 · Cited by 36
“Preclinical studies have found that ATR has a synthetic lethal relationship with several DDR players, including XRCC1 and ATM, and is currently under clinical investigation for its potential as a target in cancer therapies [38,39].”
BackgroundHeijink, A. M., Everts, M., Honeywell, M. E., Richards, R., Kok, Y. P., de Vries, E. G. E., Lee, M. J., & van Vugt, M. A. T. M. (2019) · Cell Reports · doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2019.07.070 · Cited by 37
“, 2012) and that targeting of cell-cycle checkpoints, including ATR, CHK1, and WEE1, can be used to sensitize cancer cells to cisplatin (Gadhikar et al., 2013; Hirai et al., 2009; Perez et al., 2006; Reaper et al., 2011; Sangster-Guity et al., 2011).”
BackgroundVávrová, J., Zárybnická, L., Lukášová, E., Řezáčová, M., Novotná, E., Šinkorová, Z., Tichý, A., Pejchal, J., & Ďurišová, K. (2013) · Radiation and Environmental Biophysics · doi:10.1007/s00411-013-0486-5 · Cited by 36
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“Various determinants of ATR inhibitor sensitivity have been proposed, including RS, loss of G1 checkpoint control and loss of the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) protein [7,8].”
BackgroundThe Mismatch-Binding Factor MutSβ Can Mediate ATR Activation in Response to DNA Double-Strand Breaks
Burdová, K., Mihaljević, B., Sturzenegger, A., Chappidi, N., & Janščák, P. (2015) · Molecular Cell · doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2015.06.026 · Cited by 37
Cytoplasmic ATR Activation Promotes Vaccinia Virus Genome Replication
Postigo, A. A., Ramsden, A. E., Howell, M. T., & Way, M. (2017) · Cell Reports · doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2017.04.025 · Cited by 38
“, 2004) (118500, Millipore, 20 mM), VE-821 (ATRi) (Reaper et al., 2011) (A11605, Adooq Bioscience, 20 mM), SB218078 (Chk1i) (559402, Millipore, 5 mM), AZD7762 (Chk1/2i) (SML-0350, Sigma, 2 mM), MG-132 (Sigma, 25 mM), CHX (C7698, Sigma, 50 mM), AraC (C1768, Sigma, 50/5 mM), HAMNO (SML1234, Sigma, 20 mM), KU60019 (HY-12…”
DNA Damage Repair Inhibitors—Combination Therapies
Smith, G., Alholm, Z., Coleman, R. L., & Monk, B. J. (2021) · The Cancer Journal · doi:10.1097/ppo.0000000000000561 · Cited by 35
Targeting IDH1/2 mutant cancers with combinations of ATR and PARP inhibitors
Sule, A. D., Doorn, J. V., Sundaram, R. K., Ganesa, S., Vasquez, J. C., & Bindra, R. S. (2021) · NAR Cancer · doi:10.1093/narcan/zcab018 · Cited by 38
Peng, S., Long, M., Chen, Q.-S., Yin, Z., Zeng, C., Zhang, W., Wen, Q., Zhang, X., Ke, W., & Wu, Y. (2025) · Cell Death Discovery · doi:10.1038/s41420-025-02418-8 · Cited by 38
Building high-resolution synthetic lethal networks: a ‘Google map’ of the cancer cell
Paul, J., Templeton, S. D., Baharani, A., Freywald, A., & Vizeacoumar, F. J. (2014) · Trends in Molecular Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.molmed.2014.09.009 · Cited by 34
Mohni, K. N., Smith, S., Dee, A. R., Schumacher, A. J., & Weller, S. K. (2013) · PLoS Pathogens · doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003652 · Cited by 34
“For example, ATM- and p53-deficient tumor cells are very sensitive to ATR inhibition [63], and the combination of oncolytic HSV-1 with conventional chemotherapy has resulted in decreased tumor volume and improved long-term survival in animal models of Glioblastoma multiforme [68,69].”
BackgroundKemp, M. G., & Sancar, A. (2016) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.m116.719740 · Cited by 35
“Inhibitors of the DNA damage kinases ATR (VE-821 and AZD6738), ataxia telangiectasia-mutated (ATM; KU-55933), DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK; NU7441), and Checkpoint kinase 1 (CHK1; AZD7762) were purchased from Selleckchem.”
BackgroundResultInfluentialTherapeutic Targeting of the DNA Damage Response Using an ATR Inhibitor in Biliary Tract Cancer
Nam, A., Jin, M. H., Park, J. E., Bang, J., Oh, D., & Bang, Y. (2018) · Cancer Research and Treatment · doi:10.4143/crt.2018.526 · Cited by 33
Restelli, V., Lupi, M., Chilà, R., Vagni, M., Tarantelli, C., Spriano, F., Gaudio, E., Bertoni, F., Damia, G. L. M., & Carrassa, L. (2019) · Molecular Cancer Therapeutics · doi:10.1158/1535-7163.mct-18-0919 · Cited by 35
“Since both TP53 and MYC have already been found to be associated with a strong response to ATR inhibitors (19, 28, 29), we looked for a putative association of these molecular features with the degree of sensitivity to AZD6738 in 26 of the 36 B-cell lymphoma cell lines tested (with known functional status for TP53 and…”
BackgroundResultCrosstalk between P53 and DNA damage response in ageing
Mohammadzadeh, A., Mirza‐Aghazadeh‐Attari, M., Hallaj, S., Saei, A. A., Alivand, M. R., Valizadeh, A., Yousefi, B., & Majidinia, M. (2019) · DNA repair · doi:10.1016/j.dnarep.2019.05.004 · Cited by 34
López‐Peláez, M., Young, L. A., Vázquez–Chantada, M., Nelson, N., Durant, S. T., Wilkinson, R. W., Poon, E., Gaspar, M., Valge-Archer, V., Smith, P. D., et al. (2022) · OncoImmunology · doi:10.1080/2162402x.2022.2117321 · Cited by 37
“Tumor cells with defects in the DNA damage response pathway have been shown to be more susceptible to DNA damage induction(3) and ATR inhibition has been described to induce synthetic lethality in ATM −/− cells.(2,20,24) To confirm these results, we treated FaDu ATM −/− cells with the ATR inhibitor ceralasertib or wit…”
BackgroundMethodPold3is required for genomic stability and telomere integrity in embryonic stem cells and meiosis
Zhou, Z., Wang, L., Ge, F., Gong, P., Wang, H., Wang, F., Chen, L., & Liu, L. (2018) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gky098 · Cited by 34
“Moreover, we used an ATR specific inhibitor VE-821 (43,44), which can induce predominantly replicative stress, to treat shPold3 ESCs compared with shControl.”
MethodKawasumi, M., Bradner, J. E., Tolliday, N. J., Thibodeau, R. M., Sloan, H., Brummond, K. M., & Nghiem, P. (2014) · Cancer Research · doi:10.1158/0008-5472.can-14-2650 · Cited by 30
“These compounds sensitized cancer cells to cisplatin, while sparing normal cells (15, 16), further supporting the potential utility of ATR inhibition to sensitize cancer cells to death.”
BackgroundIGF-1R inhibition sensitizes breast cancer cells to ATM-related kinase (ATR) inhibitor and cisplatin
O’Flanagan, C. H., O’Shea, S., Lyons, A., Fogarty, F., McCabe, N., Kennedy, R. D., & O’Connor, R. (2016) · Oncotarget · doi:10.18632/oncotarget.10862 · Cited by 32
“OSI-906 and VE-821 in combination consistently decreased colony growth over the entire range of drug concentrations (Figure 3E).”
MethodInfluentialTalele, S., Zhang, W., Burgenske, D. M., Kim, M., Mohammad, A. S., Dragojevic, S., Gupta, S. K., Bindra, R. S., Sarkaria, J. N., & Elmquist, W. F. (2021) · Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · doi:10.1124/jpet.121.000845 · Cited by 31
Stella preserves maternal chromosome integrity by inhibiting 5hmC‐induced γH2AX accumulation
Nakatani, T., Yamagata, K., Kimura, T., Oda, M., Nakashima, H., Hori, M., Sekita, Y., Arakawa, T., Nakamura, T., & Nakano, T. (2015) · EMBO Reports · doi:10.15252/embr.201439427 · Cited by 31
“To examine the effect of cH2AX in the development of Stella-null embryos, we inhibited the cH2AX accumulation using various kinase inhibitors [22,23].”
MethodYang, S., Kuo, T., Wu, H., Guo, J., Hsu, C., Hsu, C., Tien, Y., Yeh, K., Cheng, A., & Kuo, S. (2016) · World Journal of Gastroenterology · doi:10.3748/wjg.v22.i32.7275 · Cited by 33
Phosphorylation of seryl-tRNA synthetase by ATM/ATR is essential for hypoxia-induced angiogenesis
Shi, Y., Liu, Z., Zhang, Q., Vallee, I., Mo, Z., Kishi, S., & Yang, X. (2020) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000991 · Cited by 31
“(I) ChIP-qPCR to measure the binding of SerRS to VEGFA promoter in HEK293 cells stably transfected with SerRSWT, SerRSAA, or SerRSDD under normoxia or hypoxia, in the presence or absence of VE-821 (means ± SEM, n = 3, biological replicates, ��p 0.01, ���p 0.001, Student t test).”
ResultInfluentialFlood, M. P., Narasimhan, V., Wilson, K., Lim, W. M., Ramsay, R. G., Michael, M., & Heriot, A. G. (2021) · Annals of Surgical Oncology · doi:10.1245/s10434-021-10829-x · Cited by 32
Sowd, G. A., Mody, D., Eggold, J. T., Cortez, D., Friedman, K. L., & Fanning, E. (2014) · PLoS Pathogens · doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1004536 · Cited by 29
“ATMi [36], ATRi [35], and Nu7026 [42] were as previously described [30] and used at 10, 5, and 10 mM, respectively.”
MethodExploiting Replication Stress as a Novel Therapeutic Intervention
Martin, J. C., Hoegel, T. J., Lynch, M. L., Woloszynska‐Read, A., Melendy, T., & Ohm, J. E. (2020) · Molecular Cancer Research · doi:10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-20-0651 · Cited by 32
“Inhibitors of ATR, CHK1, and WEE1 have been shown to be efficacious as single agents in the treatment of several forms of cancer including Ewing sarcoma (86), MYC-driven lymphoma (87), p53- and ATM-deficient tumors (88) and certain subsets of lung cancer (89).”
BackgroundEffect of ATR Inhibition in RT Response of HPV-Negative and HPV-Positive Head and Neck Cancers
Dok, R., Glorieux, M., Bamps, M., & Nuyts, S. (2021) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences · doi:10.3390/ijms22041504 · Cited by 31
“This despite that defective DDR has been reported as a marker for ATR sensitivity [35,39,40] and differences in DDR have been implied as a potential mechanism for ATR-mediated sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents [38].”
BackgroundPlummer, R., Dean, E. J., Arkenau, H., Redfern, C. H., Spira, A. I., Melear, J. M., Chung, K. Y., Ferrer-Playan, J., Goddemeier, T., Locatelli, G., et al. (2021) · Lung Cancer · doi:10.1016/j.lungcan.2021.11.011 · Cited by 30
Javed, S. R., Lord, S., Badri, S. E., Harman, R., Holmes, J., Kamzi, F., Maughan, T., McIntosh, D., Mukherjee, S., Ooms, A., et al. (2023) · British Journal of Cancer · doi:10.1038/s41416-023-02542-1 · Cited by 30
The Mechanism of Action of (−)-Lomaiviticin A
Herzon, S. B. (2017) · Accounts of Chemical Research · doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00347 · Cited by 32
Turchick, A., Zimmermann, A., Chiu, L.-Y., Dahmen, H., Elenbaas, B., Zenke, F. T., Blaukat, A., & Vassilev, L. T. (2023) · Molecular Cancer Therapeutics · doi:10.1158/1535-7163.mct-22-0685 · Cited by 30
“Consistent with previous reports (21), these data suggest that, while the effect of M6620þM3541 combination is cytotoxic in most tested cancer cell lines, it is largely cytostatic in fibroblasts.”
Alfayomy, A. M., Ashry, R., Kansy, A. G., Sarnow, A., Erdmann, F., Schmidt, M., Krämer, O. H., & Sippl, W. (2024) · European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry · doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2024.116167 · Cited by 28
Cui, Y., Palii, S. S., Innes, C. L., & Paules, R. S. (2014) · Cell Cycle · doi:10.4161/15384101.2014.960729 · Cited by 29
“In another report, ATR inhibition through VE-821, a selective small-molecule inhibitor, showed profound synthetic lethal interaction in cells deficient in ATM-p53 pathway when treated with DNA-damaging agents.(36) Therefore, deficiency in other components in the ATM-CHK2p53 pathway may also sensitize cells to ATR disr…”
BackgroundAcquired small cell lung cancer resistance to Chk1 inhibitors involves Wee1 up‐regulation
Zhao, X., Kim, I., Kallakury, B., Chahine, J. J., Iwama, E., Pierobon, M., Petricoin, E. F., McCutcheon, J. N., Zhang, Y., Umemura, S., et al. (2020) · Molecular Oncology · doi:10.1002/1878-0261.12882 · Cited by 29
Jones, M. V., Gelot, C., Munk, S., Koren, A., Kawasoe, Y., George, K. A., Santos, R. E., Olsen, J. V., McCarroll, S. A., Frattini, M. G., et al. (2021) · Molecular Cell · doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2021.01.004 · Cited by 29
“To determine if ATR acts similarly in DDK-inhibited cells we used VE-821, a validated ATR-selective inhibitor (Reaper et al., 2011).”
MethodDrug and molecular radiotherapy combinations for metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer
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Exploiting DNA Damage Repair in Precision Cancer Therapy: BRCA1 as a Prime Therapeutic Target
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Cancer TARGETases: DSB repair as a pharmacological target
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TGFβ Promotes Genomic Instability after Loss of RUNX3
Krishnan, V., Chong, Y. L., Tan, T. Z., Kulkarni, M., Rahmat, M. B. B., Tay, L. S., Sankar, H., Jokhun, D. S., Ganesan, A., Chuang, L. S. H., et al. (2017) · Cancer Research · doi:10.1158/0008-5472.can-17-1178 · Cited by 30
“molecular inhibitors, KU-55933 (10 M) and VE-821 (2 M), respectively (38,39).”
Therapeutic targeting of ATR in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma
García, H. D., Pusch, F. F., Bei, Y., von Stebut, J., Ibáñez, G., Guillan, K. C., Imami, K., Gürgen, D., Rolff, J., Helmsauer, K., et al. (2022) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32023-7 · Cited by 29
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
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 51 · 2019: 39 · 2018: 51 · 2017: 53 · 2016: 56 · 2015: 51 · 2014: 41 · 2013: 38 · 2012: 22
- 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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