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Aurora kinase A, a synthetic lethal target for precision cancer medicine

  • 작성자

    Joong Sup Shim
  • 작성일자

    2021-06-17
  • 조회수

    264
Joong Sup Shim ( jsshim@um.edu.mo )
2019-present Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR
2013 - 2019 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR
2006 - 2013 Postdoctoral fellow/Research associate, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
2005 - 2006 Research scientist, Biotechnology Industrialization Institute, Yonsei University
2001 - 2004 Ph.D., Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Sejong University

Aurora kinase A, a synthetic lethal target for precision cancer medicine

Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies and data science have facilitated the development of precision medicine to treat cancer patients. Synthetic lethality is one of the core methodologies employed in precision cancer medicine. Synthetic lethality describes the phenomenon of the interplay between two genes in which deficiency of a single gene does not abolish cell viability but combined deficiency of two genes leads to cell death. In cancer treatment, synthetic lethality is leveraged to exploit the dependency of cancer cells on a pathway that is essential for cell survival when a tumor suppressor is mutated. This approach enables pharmacological targeting of mutant tumor suppressors that are theoretically undruggable. Successful clinical introduction of BRCA-PARP synthetic lethality in cancer treatment led to additional discoveries of novel synthetic lethal partners of other tumor suppressors, including p53, PTEN, and RB1, using high-throughput screening. Recent work has highlighted aurora kinase A (AURKA) as a synthetic lethal partner of multiple tumor suppressors. AURKA is a serine/threonine kinase involved in a number of central biological processes, such as the G2/M transition, mitotic spindle assembly, and DNA replication. This review introduces synthetic lethal interactions between AURKA and its tumor suppressor partners and discusses the potential of AURKA inhibitors in precision cancer medicine.

Exp Mol Med. 2021 May;53(5):835-847. doi: 10.1038/s12276-021-00635-6.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34050264/