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Jirina Bartkova

Jirina Bartkova

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Medicine

D-Index
87
Citations
30963
World Ranking
13562
National Ranking
256

Overview

Jirina Bartkova is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these areas, Bartkova has contributed work focused on Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's main topics of study include DNA Repair Mechanisms, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, PARP inhibition in cancer therapy, RNA Research and Splicing, and research related to Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus.

Bartkova has published in various scientific journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Nature
  • Cancer Discovery
  • Molecular Cell
  • Science Advances

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bartkova include:

  • AMBRA1 regulates cyclin D to guard S-phase entry and genomic integrity, 2021, Nature
  • Induction of APOBEC3 Exacerbates DNA Replication Stress and Chromosomal Instability in Early Breast and Lung Cancer Evolution, 2021, Cancer Discovery
  • Loss of nuclear DNA ligase III reverts PARP inhibitor resistance in BRCA1/53BP1 double-deficient cells by exposing ssDNA gaps, 2021, Molecular Cell
  • The exon-junction complex helicase eIF4A3 controls cell fate via coordinated regulation of ribosome biogenesis and translational output, 2021, Science Advances
  • The human nucleoporin Tpr protects cells from RNA-mediated replication stress, 2021, Nature Communications

Bartkova has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Jiří Bártek
  • Apolinar Maya-Mendoza
  • Panagiotis Galanos
  • Miguel Andújar
  • Joanna Maria Merchut-Maya

The range of Bartkova's research contributions reflects interdisciplinary engagement across molecular and cancer biology, with a notable emphasis on mechanisms underpinning DNA repair, genetic regulation, and therapeutic resistance in cancer contexts.

Best Publications

  • DNA damage response as a candidate anti-cancer barrier in early human tumorigenesis

    Jirina Bartkova;Zuzana Horejsí;Karen Koed;Alwin Krämer

  • Oncogene-induced senescence is part of the tumorigenesis barrier imposed by DNA damage checkpoints

    Jirina Bartkova;Nousin Rezaei;Michalis Liontos;Panagiotis Karakaidos

  • Retinoblastoma-protein-dependent cell-cycle inhibition by the tumour suppressor p16

    Jiri Lukas;David Parry;Louise Aagaard;David J. Mann

  • 53BP1 loss rescues BRCA1 deficiency and is associated with triple-negative and BRCA-mutated breast cancers

    Peter Bouwman;Amal Mahmoud Aly;Jose M. Escandell;Mark Pieterse

  • DNA damage signalling guards against activated oncogenes and tumour progression.

    J Bartek;J Bartkova;J Lukas

  • p16INK4A is a robust in vivo biomarker of cellular aging in human skin.

    Sigrun Ressler;Jirina Bartkova;Harald Niederegger;Jiri Bartek

  • Distinct spatiotemporal dynamics of mammalian checkpoint regulators induced by DNA damage

    Claudia Lukas;Jacob Falck;Jirina Bartkova;Jiri Bartek

  • Alcohol-abuse drug disulfiram targets cancer via p97 segregase adaptor NPL4

    Zdenek Skrott;Martin Mistrik;Klaus Kaae Andersen;Søren Friis

  • REV7 counteracts DNA double-strand break resection and affects PARP inhibition

    Guotai Xu;J. Ross Chapman;Inger Brandsma;Jingsong Yuan

  • 53BP1 functions in an ATM-dependent checkpoint pathway that is constitutively activated in human cancer

    Richard A. DiTullio;Tamara A. Mochan;Tamara A. Mochan;Monica Venere;Monica Venere;Jirina Bartkova

  • The retinoblastoma protein pathway and the restriction point

    Jiri Bartek;Jirina Bartkova;Jiri Lukas

  • A CHEK2 genetic variant contributing to a substantial fraction of familial breast cancer.

    Pia Vahteristo;Jirina Bartkova;Hannaleena Eerola;Kirsi Syrjäkoski

  • Convergence of mitogenic signalling cascades from diverse classes of receptors at the cyclin D-cyclin-dependent kinase-pRb-controlled G1 checkpoint.

    J Lukas;J Bartkova;J Bartek

  • Cyclin D1 is dispensable for G1 control in retinoblastoma gene-deficient cells independently of cdk4 activity.

    J Lukas;J Bartkova;M Rohde;M Strauss

  • Autocrine VEGF-VEGFR2-Neuropilin-1 signaling promotes glioma stem-like cell viability and tumor growth

    Petra Hamerlik;Justin D. Lathia;Rikke Rasmussen;Qiulian Wu

  • A core protein epitope of the polymorphic epithelial mucin detected by the monoclonal antibody SM-3 is selectively exposed in a range of primary carcinomas.

    Anne Girling;Jirina Bartkova;Joy Burchell;Sandra Gendler

  • The p16-cyclin D/Cdk4-pRb Pathway as a Functional Unit Frequently Altered in Melanoma Pathogenesis

    Jirina Bartkova;Jiri Lukas;Per Guldberg;Jan Alsner

  • The Retinoblastoma Protein Pathway in Cell Cycle Control and Cancer

    Jiri Bartek;Jirina Bartkova;Jiri Lukas

  • Senescence-associated heterochromatin foci are dispensable for cellular senescence, occur in a cell type- and insult-dependent manner and follow expression of p16ink4a

    Martin Kosar;Jirina Bartkova;Sona Hubackova;Zdenek Hodny

  • Oncogene-induced senescence is part of the tumorigenesis barrier imposed by DNA damage

    Jirina Bartkova;Nousin Rezaei;Michalis Liontos;Panagiotis Karakaidos

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiri Bartek
Jiri Bartek Karolinska Institute
Jiri Bartek
Jiri Bartek Karolinska Institute
Jiri Lukas
Jiri Lukas University of Copenhagen
Carl Blomqvist
Carl Blomqvist University of Helsinki
Heli Nevanlinna
Heli Nevanlinna University of Helsinki
Vassilis G. Gorgoulis
Vassilis G. Gorgoulis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Sven Rottenberg
Sven Rottenberg University of Bern
Ewa Rajpert-De Meyts
Ewa Rajpert-De Meyts University of Copenhagen
Niels E. Skakkebæk
Niels E. Skakkebæk University of Copenhagen
Thanos D. Halazonetis
Thanos D. Halazonetis University of Geneva

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