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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-11-1
pubmed:abstractText
The majority of cancer therapeutics induces DNA damage to kill cells. Normal proliferating cells undergo cell cycle arrest in response to DNA damage, thus allowing DNA repair to protect the genome. DNA damage induced cell cycle arrest depends on an evolutionarily conserved signal transduction network in which the Chk1 kinase plays a critical role. In mammalian cells, the p53 and RB pathways further augment the cell cycle arrest response to prevent catastrophic cell death. Given the fact that most tumor cells suffer defects in the p53 and RB pathways, it is likely that tumor cells would depend more on the Chk1 kinase to maintain cell cycle arrest than would normal cells. Therefore Chk1 inhibition could be used to specifically sensitize tumor cells to DNA-damaging agents. We have previously shown that siRNA-mediated Chk1 knockdown abrogates DNA damage-induced checkpoints and potentiates the cytotoxicity of several DNA-damaging agents in p53-deficient cell lines. In this study, we have developed 2 potent and selective Chk1 inhibitors, A-690002 and A-641397, and shown that these compounds abrogate cell cycle checkpoints and potentiate the cytotoxicity of topoisomerase inhibitors and gamma-radiation in p53-deficient but not in p53-proficient cells of different tissue origins. These results indicate that it is feasible to achieve a therapeutic window with 1 or more Chk1 inhibitors in potentiation of cancer therapy based on the status of the p53 pathway in a wide spectrum of tumor types.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Antibodies, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CDC2 Protein Kinase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CDC25A protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Camptothecin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Caspases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Checkpoint kinase 1, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Doxorubicin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein Kinase Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein Kinases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/RNA, Small Interfering, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tumor Suppressor Protein p53, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Urea, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/cdc25 Phosphatases
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0020-7136
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
119
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2784-94
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Antibodies, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-CDC2 Protein Kinase, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Camptothecin, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Caspases, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Cell Cycle, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Cell Survival, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-DNA Damage, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Doxorubicin, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Drug Synergism, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-HeLa Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Molecular Structure, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Protein Kinase Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-RNA, Small Interfering, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Tumor Suppressor Protein p53, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-Urea, pubmed-meshheading:17019715-cdc25 Phosphatases
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Selective Chk1 inhibitors differentially sensitize p53-deficient cancer cells to cancer therapeutics.
pubmed:affiliation
Cancer Research, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL 60064-6101, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article