Electrophiles and electrophile pro-drugs as RAD51 inhibitors

Abstract

A method comprising co-administering to a subject having cancer, suspected of having cancer, or at risk of developing cancer: a therapeutically effective amount of at least one compound (a) selected from (a)(i) a nitroalkene fatty acid, (a)(ii) an unsaturated fatty acid having an electron withdrawing group, a leaving group, and a carbon-carbon double bond disposed between the electron withdrawing group and the leaving group, (a)(iii) a thiolated nitro fatty acid, or (a)(iv) a dicarboxylic acid compound containing an electron withdrawing group; and a therapeutically effective amount of at least one anti-neoplastic agent (b), wherein the cancer is a cancer with hereditary etiology of defects in DNA repair genes, a cancer with a high rate of spontaneous genomic instability, a cancer that responds well to DNA damaging agent(s), or a cancer that responds well to a combination of DNA damaging agent(s) with immunotherapy.

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