Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

NADP+ is an endogenous PARP inhibitor in DNA damage response and tumor suppression

  • Chunjing Bian,
  • Chao Zhang,
  • Tao Luo,
  • Aditi Vyas,
  • Shih-Hsun Chen,
  • Chao Liu,
  • Muzaffer Ahmad Kassab,
  • Ying Yang,
  • Mei Kong,
  • Xiaochun Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08530-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Cancer cells respond differently to inhibitors of Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase. Here the authors reveal that ovarian cancer cells with higher cellular NADP+ levels are more sensitive to clinically relevant PARP1 inhibitors and show that NADP+ act as an endogenous inhibitor of PARP enzymes.