Novel Insights into RAD52's Structure, Function, and Druggability for Synthetic Lethality and Innovative Anticancer Therapies

In recent years, the RAD52 protein has been highlighted as a mediator of many DNA repair mechanisms. While RAD52 was initially considered to be a non-essential auxiliary factor, its inhibition has more recently been demonstrated to be synthetically lethal in cancer cells bearing mutations and inactivation of specific intracellular pathways, such as homologous recombination. RAD52 is now recognized as a novel and critical pharmacological target. In this review, we comprehensively describe the available structural and functional information on RAD52. The review highlights the pathways in which RAD52 is involved and the approaches to RAD52 inhibition. We discuss the multifaceted role of this protein, which has a complex, dynamic, and functional 3D superstructural arrangement. This complexity reinforces the need to further investigate and characterize RAD52 to solve a challenging mechanistic puzzle and pave the way for a robust drug discovery campaign.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Cancers - 15(2023), 6 vom: 17. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Balboni, Beatrice [VerfasserIn]
Rinaldi, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Previtali, Viola [VerfasserIn]
Ciamarone, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Girotto, Stefania [VerfasserIn]
Cavalli, Andrea [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Drug discovery
Journal Article
Precision medicine
RAD52
Review
Synthetic lethality

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Date Revised 31.03.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/cancers15061817

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM354856669