| Literature DB >> 19755856 |
H Christian Reinhardt1, Hai Jiang, Michael T Hemann, Michael B Yaffe.
Abstract
Emerging data suggests that synthetic lethal interactions between mutated oncogenes/tumor suppressor genes and molecules involved in DNA damage signaling and repair can be therapeutically exploited to preferentially kill tumor cells. In this review, we discuss the concept of synthetic lethality, and describe several recent examples in which this concept was successfully implemented to target tumor cells in culture, in mouse models, and in human cancer patients.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19755856 PMCID: PMC3057180 DOI: 10.4161/cc.8.19.9626
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Cycle ISSN: 1551-4005 Impact factor: 4.534