2021
Tumor-selective, antigen-independent delivery of a pH sensitive peptide-topoisomerase inhibitor conjugate suppresses tumor growth without systemic toxicity
Gayle S, Aiello R, Leelatian N, Beckta JM, Bechtold J, Bourassa P, Csengery J, Maguire RJ, Marshall D, Sundaram RK, Van Doorn J, Jones K, Moore H, Lopresti-Morrow L, Paradis T, Tylaska L, Zhang Q, Visca H, Reshetnyak YK, Andreev OA, Engelman DM, Glazer PM, Bindra RS, Paralkar VM. Tumor-selective, antigen-independent delivery of a pH sensitive peptide-topoisomerase inhibitor conjugate suppresses tumor growth without systemic toxicity. NAR Cancer 2021, 3: zcab021. PMID: 34316708, PMCID: PMC8210154, DOI: 10.1093/narcan/zcab021.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAntigen-independent mannerTherapeutic indexTumor growthSystemic toxicityHigh unmet needFavorable therapeutic indexHuman tumor modelsTopoisomerase inhibitorsSevere systemic toxicityHigh therapeutic indexRibose polymerase inhibitorsHuman solid tumorsSuppress tumor growthTumor cell killingAntibody-drug conjugatesSynergistic tumor cell killingUniversal tumorSpecific antigenSolid tumorsUnmet needPARP inhibitorsTumor modelCytotoxic payloadDNA repair inhibitorsPolymerase inhibitors
2018
Krebs-cycle-deficient hereditary cancer syndromes are defined by defects in homologous-recombination DNA repair
Sulkowski PL, Sundaram RK, Oeck S, Corso CD, Liu Y, Noorbakhsh S, Niger M, Boeke M, Ueno D, Kalathil AN, Bao X, Li J, Shuch B, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Krebs-cycle-deficient hereditary cancer syndromes are defined by defects in homologous-recombination DNA repair. Nature Genetics 2018, 50: 1086-1092. PMID: 30013182, PMCID: PMC6072579, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0170-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDNA double-strand breaksPGL/PCCDNA repair deficiency syndromeHomologous recombination DNA repair pathwayDNA repair pathwaysDouble-strand breaksHomologous recombination DNA repairSynthetic lethal targetingGenomic integrityDNA repairFumarate hydrataseMechanistic basisCancer predispositionFunction mutationsGermline lossKrebs cycleSuccinate dehydrogenaseHereditary paragangliomaRespectively1–3Ribose polymerase inhibitorsHereditary leiomyomatosisHereditary cancer syndromesCancer syndromesTumor cellsPolymerase inhibitors