ST6GAL1 is a novel serum biomarker for lenvatinib-susceptible FGF19-driven hepatocellular carcinoma

Y Myojin, T Kodama, K Maesaka, D Motooka… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Purpose: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is characterized by high intertumor heterogeneity
of genetic drivers. Two multitarget tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), lenvatinib and sorafenib …

[HTML][HTML] Tumorigenic effect of TERT and its potential therapeutic target in NSCLC

L Yang, N Li, M Wang, YH Zhang… - Oncology …, 2021 - spandidos-publications.com
Non‑small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which accounts for~ 85% of all lung cancer cases, is
commonly diagnosed at an advanced stage and has a high patient mortality rate. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanism of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) regulation and clinical impacts in leukemia

MY Yik, A Azlan, Y Rajasegaran, A Rosli, NM Yusoff… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
The proliferative capacity and continuous survival of cells are highly dependent on
telomerase expression and the maintenance of telomere length. For this reason, elevated …

Polymorphic tandem DNA repeats activate the human telomerase reverse transcriptase gene

T Xu, D Cheng, Y Zhao, J Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Multiple independent sequence variants of the hTERT locus have been associated with
telomere length and cancer risks in genome-wide association studies. Here, we identified an …

Alternative splicing of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) and its implications in physiological and pathological processes

AA Plyasova, DD Zhdanov - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Alternative splicing (AS) of human telomerase catalytic subunit (hTERT, human telomerase
reverse transcriptase) pre-mRNA strongly regulates telomerase activity. Several proteins …

Telomere dysfunction in Tert knockout mice delays BrafV600E‐induced melanoma development

J Zhang, F Zhang, KI Porter, PP Dakup… - … Journal of Cancer, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Telomerase activation is a crucial step in melanomagenesis, often occurring because of
ultraviolet radiation (UVR)‐induced mutations at the telomerase gene (TERT) promoter and …

Reverse transcriptase inhibition potentiates target therapy in BRAF-mutant melanomas: effects on cell proliferation, apoptosis, DNA-damage, ROS induction and …

L Fattore, D Malpicci, C Milite, S Castellano… - Cell Communication and …, 2020 - Springer
Target therapies based on BRAF and MEK inhibitors (MAPKi) have changed the therapeutic
landscape for metastatic melanoma patients bearing mutations in the BRAF kinase …

ETS variant transcription factor 5 and c-Myc cooperate in derepressing the human telomerase gene promoter via composite ETS/E-box motifs

F Zhang, S Wang, J Zhu - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - ASBMB
The human telomerase gene (hTERT) is repressed in most somatic cells. How transcription
factors activate the hTERT promoter in its repressive chromatin environment is unknown …

The regulatory function of tandem repeat VNTR2‐1 in hTERT gene involves basic Helix–loop–helix family transcription factors

X Zhu, T Xu, J Zhu - Environmental and molecular mutagenesis, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme that synthesizes telomere end sequence. The
expression of hTERT gene, encoding the catalytic subunit of human telomerase, is restricted …

间充质干细胞与成纤维细胞生物学特性的比较及研究进展

赵强, 白海, 苏毅, 姚浩 - 中国细胞生物学学报, 2021 - cqvip.com
间充质干细胞(mesenchymal stem cells, MSCs) 具有多向分化潜能和免疫调节能力,
且不具伦理争议的特点使其数十年来在基础和临床研究中得到广泛应用. 然而, MSCs …