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Targeting Polo - like Kinase 1 for the Treatment of Cancer
Plk1 levels start to rise significantly at the beginning of S phase, and peak after the G2/M transition [3]. Plk1 plays a critical role in centrosome maturation, kinetochore assembly, and bipolar spindle formation[4]. More importantly, Plk1 plays a key role in ensuring normal mitotic progression. It initiates mitotic entry and mitotic exit by phosphorylating Cyclin B, Cdc25c and by activating t...
متن کاملTargeting Polo-like kinase in cancer therapy.
Polo-like kinases (Plk) function in mitosis and maintaining DNA integrity. There are four family members, of which Plk1 represents a target for anticancer therapy. Plk1 is only expressed in dividing cells with peak expression during G2/M. Plk1 functions in multiple steps of mitosis, and is overexpressed in many tumor types. Mitotic arrest and inhibition of proliferation, apoptosis, and tumor gr...
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Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) is an interesting molecule both as a biomarker and as a target for highly specific cancer therapy for several reasons. Firstly, it is over-expressed in many cancers and can serve as a biomarker to monitor treatment efficacy of Plk1 inhibitors. Furthermore, the Plk1 enzyme is expressed only in dividing cells and is a major regulator of the cell cycle. It controls entry ...
متن کاملPolo-like kinase-1 in DNA damage response
Polo-like kinase-1 (Plk1) belongs to a family of serine-threonine kinases and plays a critical role in mitotic progression. Plk1 involves in the initiation of mitosis, centrosome maturation, bipolar spindle formation, and cytokinesis, well-reported as traditional functions of Plk1. In this review, we discuss the role of Plk1 during DNA damage response beyond the functions in mitotsis. When DNA ...
متن کاملThe mitotic roles of Polo-like kinase.
The Polo-like protein kinases (Plks) are a conserved family of enzymes that play a variety of roles in the passage of cells through M phase (for reviews see Glover et al., 1998; Nigg, 1998). Named after the Drosophila polo gene originally identified through a recessive maternal effect lethal mutation, conserved Plk homologues have been identified in yeast, Xenopus, C. elegans and mammals. The i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cancers
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2072-6694
DOI: 10.3390/cancers12102953