Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Synthetic viability by BRCA2 and PARP1/ARTD1 deficiencies

  • Xia Ding,
  • Arnab Ray Chaudhuri,
  • Elsa Callen,
  • Yan Pang,
  • Kajal Biswas,
  • Kimberly D. Klarmann,
  • Betty K. Martin,
  • Sandra Burkett,
  • Linda Cleveland,
  • Stacey Stauffer,
  • Teresa Sullivan,
  • Aashish Dewan,
  • Hanna Marks,
  • Anthony T. Tubbs,
  • Nancy Wong,
  • Eugen Buehler,
  • Keiko Akagi,
  • Scott E. Martin,
  • Jonathan R. Keller,
  • André Nussenzweig,
  • Shyam K. Sharan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12425
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The PARP inhibitor olaparib is an approved treatment method for women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation associated cancers. Here the authors show that olaparib can contribute to synthetic viability of cells if PARP1 is inhibited before BRCA2 loss.