PARP Inhibitors in Cancers: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Cancer Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 17
Special Issue Editor
Interests: PARP; hypoxia; tumor microenvironment; PARP inhibitor; mitochondrial diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
A deeper understanding of DNA repair mechanisms and their potential value as therapeutic targets in oncology has heralded the clinical development of a wide range of chemical inhibitors that target several enzymes involved in signal DNA damage, modulating chromatin architecture or inhibiting specific DNA repair pathways, and whose activity is certainly uncontrolled in cancer cells. Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors represent a novel and effective class of anti-cancer therapy, highlighting the importance of the synthetic lethality concept in cancer progression, focusing on cells lacking homologous recombination DNA repair. Biochemically, PARP inhibition leads to the accumulation of DNA damage by impairing single-strand break sites, trapping DNA-dependent PARP at these SSBR sites and leading to the inhibition of DNA replication.
However, the mechanism is much more complex and the biology of PARP enzyme inhibition is still far from fully understood. This dearth of information has triggered a multitude of projects and groups to open new lines of research on cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic or cardiac diseases, enriching knowledge about the therapeutic potential of PARP inhibitors.
This Special Issue welcomes both original research manuscripts and reviews focused on the current state of PARP inhibitors in cancer therapy.
Dr. Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Vargas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- PARP inhibitors
- clinical relevance
- cancer progression
- DNA repair mechanisms
- cancer cells
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