ReviewGenes2021
DNA Polymerase θ: A Cancer Drug Target with Reverse Transcriptase Activity.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- RTx-303, an Orally Bioavailable Polθ Polymerase Inhibitor That Potentiates PARP Inhibitors in BRCA Mutant Tumors.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2025Article
- Structural basis for Polθ-helicase DNA binding and microhomology-mediated end-joining.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Emerging opportunities to treat drug-resistant breast cancer: Discovery of novel small-molecule inhibitors against different targets.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- DNA damage response genes as biomarkers of therapeutic outcomes in acute myeloid leukemia patients.Leukemia · 2024Article
- Automating data analysis for hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry using data-independent acquisition methodology.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Spontaneous regression of tumours. Possible cross reactivity of autoantibodies against carbonic anhydrase I.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2023Article
- Multifaceted Nature of DNA Polymerase θ.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Polθ Inhibition: An Anticancer Therapy for HR-Deficient Tumours.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Evolving DNA repair synthetic lethality targets in cancer.Bioscience reports · 2022Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The emergence of precision medicine from the development of Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors that preferentially kill cells defective in homologous recombination has sparked wide interest in identifying and characterizing additional DNA repair enzymes that are synthetic lethal with HR factors. DNA polymerase theta (Polθ) is a validated anti-cancer drug target that is synthetic lethal with HR factors and other DNA repair proteins and confers cellular resistance to various genotoxic cancer therapies. Since its initial characterization as a helicase-polymerase fusion protein in 2003, many exciting and unexpected activities of Polθ in microhomology-mediated end-joining (MMEJ) and translesion synthesis (TLS) have been discovered. Here, we provide a short review of Polθ's DNA repair activities and its potential as a drug target and highlight a recent report that reveals Polθ as a naturally occurring reverse transcriptase (RT) in mammalian cells.
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