Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

ATR inhibition facilitates targeting of leukemia dependence on convergent nucleotide biosynthetic pathways

  • Thuc M. Le,
  • Soumya Poddar,
  • Joseph R. Capri,
  • Evan R. Abt,
  • Woosuk Kim,
  • Liu Wei,
  • Nhu T. Uong,
  • Chloe M. Cheng,
  • Daniel Braas,
  • Mina Nikanjam,
  • Peter Rix,
  • Daria Merkurjev,
  • Jesse Zaretsky,
  • Harley I. Kornblum,
  • Antoni Ribas,
  • Harvey R. Herschman,
  • Julian Whitelegge,
  • Kym F. Faull,
  • Timothy R. Donahue,
  • Johannes Czernin,
  • Caius G. Radu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00221-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Leukemic cells depend on the nucleotide synthesis pathway to proliferate. Here the authors use metabolomics and proteomics to show that inhibition of ATR reduced the activity of these pathways thus providing a valuable therapeutic target in leukemia.