Defective base excision repair in the response to DNA damaging agents in triple negative breast cancer.

DNA repair defects have been increasingly focused on as therapeutic targets. In hormone-positive breast cancer, XRCC1-deficient tumors have been identified and proposed as targets for combination therapies that damage DNA and inhibit DNA repair pathways. XRCC1 is a scaffold protein that functions in...

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Main Authors: Kevin J Lee, Cortt G Piett, Joel F Andrews, Elise Mann, Zachary D Nagel, Natalie R Gassman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223725