Targeting telomeres: advances in telomere maintenance mechanism-specific cancer therapies

J Gao, HA Pickett - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer cells establish replicative immortality by activating a telomere-maintenance
mechanism (TMM), be it telomerase or the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) …

Roles of telomeres and telomerase in cancer, and advances in telomerase-targeted therapies

MA Jafri, SA Ansari, MH Alqahtani, JW Shay - Genome medicine, 2016 - Springer
Telomeres maintain genomic integrity in normal cells, and their progressive shortening
during successive cell divisions induces chromosomal instability. In the large majority of …

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 …

ATRX, a guardian of chromatin

P Aguilera, AJ López-Contreras - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
ATRX (alpha-thalassemia mental retardation X-linked) is one of the most frequently mutated
tumor suppressor genes in human cancers, especially in glioma, and recent findings …

Origin and therapies of osteosarcoma

B Moukengue, M Lallier, L Marchandet, M Baud'huin… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Osteosarcoma is the most common malignant bone tumor in children, with
a 5-year survival rate ranging from 70% to 20% depending on the aggressiveness of the …

Alternative lengthening of telomeres: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic outlooks

JM Zhang, L Zou - Cell & Bioscience, 2020 - Springer
To escape replicative senescence, cancer cells have to overcome telomere attrition during
DNA replication. Most of cancers rely on telomerase to extend and maintain telomeres, but 4 …

Alternative lengthening of telomeres: DNA repair pathways converge

AP Sobinoff, HA Pickett - Trends in Genetics, 2017 - cell.com
Telomeres shorten during each cellular division, with cumulative attrition resulting in
telomeric damage and replicative senescence. Bypass of replicative senescence …

Role of the cGAS–STING pathway in cancer development and oncotherapeutic approaches

LT Khoo, LY Chen - EMBO reports, 2018 - embopress.org
The cyclic GMP‐AMP synthase (cGAS)–stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway
mediates anti‐microbial innate immunity by inducing the production of type I interferons …

Telomere length maintenance in cancer: at the crossroad between telomerase and alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT)

M De Vitis, F Berardinelli, A Sgura - International journal of molecular …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Eukaryotic cells undergo continuous telomere shortening as a consequence of multiple
rounds of replications. During tumorigenesis, cells have to acquire telomere DNA …

Alternative lengthening of telomeres in childhood neuroblastoma from genome to proteome

SA Hartlieb, L Sieverling, M Nadler-Holly… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Telomere maintenance by telomerase activation or alternative lengthening of telomeres
(ALT) is a major determinant of poor outcome in neuroblastoma. Here, we screen for ALT in …