Prognostic and predictive biomarkers in gliomas

P Śledzińska, MG Bebyn, J Furtak… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Gliomas are the most common central nervous system tumors. New technologies, including
genetic research and advanced statistical methods, revolutionize the therapeutic approach …

Mechanisms underlying the activation of TERT transcription and telomerase activity in human cancer: old actors and new players

X Yuan, C Larsson, D Xu - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
Long-lived species Homo sapiens have evolved robust protection mechanisms against
cancer by repressing telomerase and maintaining short telomeres, thereby delaying the …

Brain cancer stem cells: resilience through adaptive plasticity and hierarchical heterogeneity

RC Gimple, K Yang, ME Halbert, S Agnihotri… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Malignant brain tumours are complex ecosystems containing neoplastic and stromal
components that generate adaptive and evolutionarily driven aberrant tissues in the central …

Saturation mutagenesis of twenty disease-associated regulatory elements at single base-pair resolution

M Kircher, C Xiong, B Martin, M Schubach… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The majority of common variants associated with common diseases, as well as an unknown
proportion of causal mutations for rare diseases, fall in noncoding regions of the genome …

Targeting telomerase for cancer therapy

AN Guterres, J Villanueva - Oncogene, 2020 - nature.com
Telomere maintenance via telomerase reactivation is a nearly universal hallmark of cancer
cells which enables replicative immortality. In contrast, telomerase activity is silenced in most …

Glioblastoma stem cells: lessons from the tumor hierarchy in a lethal cancer

RC Gimple, S Bhargava, D Dixit… - Genes & …, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Glioblastoma ranks among the most lethal of all human cancers. Glioblastomas display
striking cellular heterogeneity, with stem-like glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) at the apex …

Long telomeres and cancer risk: the price of cellular immortality

EJ McNally, PJ Luncsford… - The Journal of clinical …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The distribution of telomere length in humans is broad, but it has finite upper and lower
boundaries. Growing evidence shows that there are disease processes that are caused by …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting the non-coding genome and temozolomide signature enables CRISPR-mediated glioma oncolysis

IL Tan, AR Perez, RJ Lew, X Sun, A Baldwin, YK Zhu… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common lethal primary brain cancer in adults. Despite
treatment regimens including surgical resection, radiotherapy, and temozolomide (TMZ) …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-guided discovery of cancer therapeutic targets

P Konda, S Garinet, EM Van Allen, SR Viswanathan - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
The success of precision oncology—which aims to match the right therapies to the right
patients based on molecular status—is predicated on a robust pipeline of molecular targets …

TERT Promoter Alterations in Glioblastoma: A Systematic Review

N Olympios, V Gilard, F Marguet, F Clatot, F Di Fiore… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Glioblastoma is the most common malignant primary brain tumor in adults.
Glioblastoma accounts for 2 to 3 cases per 100,000 persons in North America and Europe …