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Discovery Of A Small-Molecule Inhibitor That Traps Polθ On Dna And Synergizes With Parp Inhibitors, William Fried, Mrityunjay Tyagi, Leonid Minakhin, Gurushankar Chandramouly, Taylor Tredinnick, Mercy Ramanjulu, William Auerbacher, Marissa L Calbert, Timur Rusanov, Trung Hoang, Nikita Borisonnik, Robert Betsch, John Krais, Yifan Wang, Umeshkumar Vekariya, John Gordon, George Morton, Tatiana Kent, Tomasz Skorski, Neil Johnson, Wayne Childers, Xiaojiang Chen, Richard Pomerantz Apr 2024

Discovery Of A Small-Molecule Inhibitor That Traps Polθ On Dna And Synergizes With Parp Inhibitors, William Fried, Mrityunjay Tyagi, Leonid Minakhin, Gurushankar Chandramouly, Taylor Tredinnick, Mercy Ramanjulu, William Auerbacher, Marissa L Calbert, Timur Rusanov, Trung Hoang, Nikita Borisonnik, Robert Betsch, John Krais, Yifan Wang, Umeshkumar Vekariya, John Gordon, George Morton, Tatiana Kent, Tomasz Skorski, Neil Johnson, Wayne Childers, Xiaojiang Chen, Richard Pomerantz

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

The DNA damage response (DDR) protein DNA Polymerase θ (Polθ) is synthetic lethal with homologous recombination (HR) factors and is therefore a promising drug target in BRCA1/2 mutant cancers. We discover an allosteric Polθ inhibitor (Polθi) class with 4-6 nM IC50 that selectively kills HR-deficient cells and acts synergistically with PARP inhibitors (PARPi) in multiple genetic backgrounds. X-ray crystallography and biochemistry reveal that Polθi selectively inhibits Polθ polymerase (Polθ-pol) in the closed conformation on B-form DNA/DNA via an induced fit mechanism. In contrast, Polθi fails to inhibit Polθ-pol catalytic activity on A-form DNA/RNA in which the enzyme binds in …


Control Of Ccnd1 Ubiquitylation By The Catalytic Saga Subunit Usp22 Is Essential For Cell Cycle Progression Through G1 In Cancer Cells., Victoria J. Gennaro, Timothy J. Stanek, Amy R. Peck, Yunguang Sun, Feng Wang, Shuo Qie, Karen E. Knudsen, Hallgeir Rui, Tauseef Butt, J. Alan Diehl, Steven B. Mcmahon Oct 2018

Control Of Ccnd1 Ubiquitylation By The Catalytic Saga Subunit Usp22 Is Essential For Cell Cycle Progression Through G1 In Cancer Cells., Victoria J. Gennaro, Timothy J. Stanek, Amy R. Peck, Yunguang Sun, Feng Wang, Shuo Qie, Karen E. Knudsen, Hallgeir Rui, Tauseef Butt, J. Alan Diehl, Steven B. Mcmahon

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Overexpression of the deubiquitylase ubiquitin-specific peptidase 22 (USP22) is a marker of aggressive cancer phenotypes like metastasis, therapy resistance, and poor survival. Functionally, this overexpression of USP22 actively contributes to tumorigenesis, as USP22 depletion blocks cancer cell cycle progression in vitro, and inhibits tumor progression in animal models of lung, breast, bladder, ovarian, and liver cancer, among others. Current models suggest that USP22 mediates these biological effects via its role in epigenetic regulation as a subunit of the Spt-Ada-Gcn5-acetyltransferase (SAGA) transcriptional cofactor complex. Challenging the dogma, we report here a nontranscriptional role for USP22 via a direct effect on the …


Dysregulated Gpcr Signaling And Therapeutic Options In Uveal Melanoma., Vivian Chua, Dominic Lapadula, Clinita Randolph, Jeffrey L. Benovic, Philip B. Wedegaertner, Andrew E. Aplin May 2017

Dysregulated Gpcr Signaling And Therapeutic Options In Uveal Melanoma., Vivian Chua, Dominic Lapadula, Clinita Randolph, Jeffrey L. Benovic, Philip B. Wedegaertner, Andrew E. Aplin

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Uveal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignant tumor in adults and arises from the transformation of melanocytes in the uveal tract. Even after treatment of the primary tumor, up to 50% of patients succumb to metastatic disease. The liver is the predominant organ of metastasis. There is an important need to provide effective treatment options for advanced stage uveal melanoma. To provide the preclinical basis for new treatments, it is important to understand the molecular underpinnings of the disease. Recent genomic studies have shown that mutations within components of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling are early events associated …


Crosstalk Between Desmoglein 2 And Patched 1 Accelerates Chemical-Induced Skin Tumorigenesis., Donna M Brennan-Crispi, Claudia Hossain, Joya Sahu, Mary Brady, Natalia A Riobo, M G Mahoney Apr 2015

Crosstalk Between Desmoglein 2 And Patched 1 Accelerates Chemical-Induced Skin Tumorigenesis., Donna M Brennan-Crispi, Claudia Hossain, Joya Sahu, Mary Brady, Natalia A Riobo, M G Mahoney

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Aberrant activation of Hedgehog (Hh) signaling is causative of BCCs and has been associated with a fraction of SCCs. Desmoglein 2 (Dsg2) is an adhesion protein that is upregulated in many cancers and overexpression of Dsg2 in the epidermis renders mice more susceptible to squamous-derived neoplasia. Here we examined a potential crosstalk between Dsg2 and Hh signaling in skin tumorigenesis. Our findings show that Dsg2 modulates Gli1 expression, in vitro and in vivo. Ectopic expression of Dsg2 on Ptc1+/lacZ background enhanced epidermal proliferation and interfollicular activation of the Hh pathway. Furthermore, in response to DMBA/TPA, the Dsg2/Ptc1+/lacZ mice developed squamous …


Parp-2 And Parp-3 Are Selectively Activated By 5' Phosphorylated Dna Breaks Through An Allosteric Regulatory Mechanism Shared With Parp-1., Marie-France Langelier, Amanda A Riccio, John M Pascal Aug 2014

Parp-2 And Parp-3 Are Selectively Activated By 5' Phosphorylated Dna Breaks Through An Allosteric Regulatory Mechanism Shared With Parp-1., Marie-France Langelier, Amanda A Riccio, John M Pascal

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

PARP-1, PARP-2 and PARP-3 are DNA-dependent PARPs that localize to DNA damage, synthesize poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) covalently attached to target proteins including themselves, and thereby recruit repair factors to DNA breaks to increase repair efficiency. PARP-1, PARP-2 and PARP-3 have in common two C-terminal domains-Trp-Gly-Arg (WGR) and catalytic (CAT). In contrast, the N-terminal region (NTR) of PARP-1 is over 500 residues and includes four regulatory domains, whereas PARP-2 and PARP-3 have smaller NTRs (70 and 40 residues, respectively) of unknown structural composition and function. Here, we show that PARP-2 and PARP-3 are preferentially activated by DNA breaks harboring a 5' phosphate …