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ReviewGenes & diseases2025

Guarding against digestive-system cancers: Unveiling the role of Chk2 as a potential therapeutic target.

Yucheng An, Duolun Gao, Yanjie He, Nan Ge, Jintao Guo, Siyu Sun, Caixia Wang, Fan Yang

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Review in Genes & diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Yucheng AnDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, China.
Duolun GaoDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, China.
Yanjie HeDepartment of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine and NYU-Langone Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Nan GeDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, China.
Jintao GuoDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, China.
Siyu SunDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, China.
Caixia WangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, China.
Fan YangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Digestive-system cancers represent major threats to human health; however, the mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis and radiochemotherapy resistance have remained elusive. Therefore, an urgent need exists for identifying key drivers of digestive system tumorigenesis and novel targeted therapeutics. The checkpoint kinase 2 (Chk2) regulates cell-cycle progression, and Chk2 dysregulation or Chk2 mutations can lead to the development of various cancers, which makes Chk2 an important research topic. This review summarizes the roles of Chk2 in DNA-damage responses, cell-cycle regulation, autophagy, and homeostasis maintenance. We describe relationships between tumorigenesis and cell-cycle dysregulation induced by Chk2 mutations. In addition, we summarize evidence indicating that Chk2 can serve as a novel therapeutic target, based on its contributions to radiochemotherapy-resistance reversion and progress made in developing antitumor agents against Chk2. The prevailing evidence supports the conclusion that further research on Chk2 will provide a deeper understanding of digestive-system tumorigenesis and should suggest novel therapeutic targets.

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Cell-cycle arrestCheckpoint kinase 2Digestive-system cancerRadiochemotherapy resistanceTumorigenesis

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PMID39524544
PMCPMC11550749

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