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SUBMITTER: Kummar S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3312820 | biostudies-other | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kummar Shivaani S Chen Alice A Parchment Ralph E RE Kinders Robert J RJ Ji Jay J Tomaszewski Joseph E JE Doroshow James H JH
BMC medicine 20120309
The poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) family of enzymes plays a critical role in the maintenance of DNA integrity as part of the base excision pathway of DNA repair. PARP1 is overexpressed in a variety of cancers, and its expression has been associated with overall prognosis in cancer, especially breast cancer. A series of new therapeutic agents that are potent inhibitors of the PARP1 and PARP2 isoforms have demonstrated important clinical activity in patients with breast or ovarian cancers th ...[more]