DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy

1. Introduction and Overview of Current Targets: Bench to Clinic

Mark R. Kelley

2. MGMT a Critical DNA Repair Gene Target for Chemotherapy Resistance

Stanton L. Gerson and Lili Liu

3. Blockade of Base Excision Repair: Inhibitionof Small Lesions Results in Big Consequences to Cancer Cells

Melissa Fishel and Carlo Vascotto

4. PARP Inhibitors - Scientific Rationale and Clinical Development for Cancer

Ruth Plummer, Nicola J. Curtin and Yvette Drew

5. Inhibiting Selective DNA Polymerases for Therapeutic Intervention

Anthony J. Berdis

6. Targeting the Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathway for Therapeutic Applications

John Turchi and Stephan M. Patrick

7. Homologous Recombination and ATM/ATR Targets

Henning Willers, Lee Zou and Heike N. Pfaffle

8. DNA Double Strand Break Repair by Nonhomologous End Joining and its Clinical Relevance

Michael Weinfeld and Susan Lees-Miller

9. Defective MMR-c-Abl-p73-GADD45alpha Expression in Cancer Chemoresistance

David Boothman and Long Shan Li

10. DNA Repair Signaling Targets

Susan Ashwell

11. Redox Regulation of DNA Repair and Therapeutic

Millie M. Georgiadis

12. Personalized Cancer Medicine: DNA Repair Alterations is a Promising Predictive Marker in Cancer

Srinivasan Madhusudan

13. The Role of DNA Damage and Repair in Neurotoxicity Caused by Cancer Therapies

Michael R. Vasko

14. Future Directions

Mark R. Kelley

Mark R. Kelley, PhD is currently the Betty and Earl Herr Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research, Associate Director for the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, and the Associate Director of Basic Science Research at the IU Simon Cancer Center. Dr. Kelley's laboratory studies DNA base excision repair in normal and tumor cells, including the study of DNA repair genes in cognitive dysfunction and peripheral neuropathy. He holds 10 patents related to the use of DNA repair targets for cancer therapy and serves on the consulting and scientific boards of several companies. Thus far Dr. Kelley's research resulted in over 160 articles published in peer reviewed journals along with numerous reviews and book chapters.

"This volume, orchestrated by Mark R. Kelley from Indiana University, offers 14 chapters by acknowledged experts that address the particular relationship between DNA repair and cancer. The content of the book is considerably broadened and enhanced by addressing topics such as the possible use of alterations in DNA as predictive biomarkers and the role of DNA damage and its repair in neurotoxicity associated with cancer therapy. Kelley appropriately concludes the volume with a thoughtful exploration of future directions in the use of inhibitors of the DNA damage response." -- Errol C. Friedberg, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA "DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy is an excellent primer for the cancer researcher interested in learning about the role of DNA repair in malignancy. Its chapters are accessible to the generalist yet offer a depth of discussion which is both comprehensive and detailed. This book should serve as an excellent entry to a complex field and a useful resource to all those seeking an in-depth review of this rapidly evolving area of drug discovery and development." --Homer L. Pearce, Ph.D., Eli Lilly and Co. (retired) "DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy provides the reader with a primer-level introduction to the six major DNA repair pathways, their interrelationships, their connectivity and regulation by other cellular operational systems, as well as their impact in shaping the development of effective cancer therapies. Chapters are well-written, detailed and up-to-date. The challenges that face new anticancer drug development based on DNA repair targets are clearly laid out and succinctly discussed with an emphasis on particular directions that are likely to result in success. The enormous complexities that have to be considered for this undertaking are placed into an understandable context and dealt with in a logical and clear fashion. The landscape of opportunity in this area is vast and challenging but has the

"This volume, orchestrated by Mark R. Kelley from Indiana University, offers 14 chapters by acknowledged experts that address the particular relationship between DNA repair and cancer. The content of the book is considerably broadened and enhanced by addressing topics such as the possible use of alterations in DNA as predictive biomarkers and the role of DNA damage and its repair in neurotoxicity associated with cancer therapy. Kelley appropriately concludes the volume with a thoughtful exploration of future directions in the use of inhibitors of the DNA damage response."

-- Errol C. Friedberg, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA

"DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy is an excellent primer for the cancer researcher interested in learning about the role of DNA repair in malignancy. Its chapters are accessible to the generalist yet offer a depth of discussion which is both comprehensive and detailed. This book should serve as an excellent entry to a complex field and a useful resource to all those seeking an in-depth review of this rapidly evolving area of drug discovery and development."

--Homer L. Pearce, Ph.D., Eli Lilly and Co. (retired)

"DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy provides the reader with a primer-level introduction to the six major DNA repair pathways, their interrelationships, their connectivity and regulation by other cellular operational systems, as well as their impact in shaping the development of effective cancer therapies. Chapters are well-written, detailed and up-to-date. The challenges that face new anticancer drug development based on DNA repair targets are clearly laid out and succinctly discussed with an emphasis on particular directions that are likely to result in success. The enormous complexities that have to be considered for this undertaking are placed into an understandable context and dealt with in a logical and clear fashion. The landscape of opportunity in this area is vast and challenging but