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) …

Deubiquitinases in cancer

G Dewson, PJA Eichhorn, D Komander - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Ubiquitination is an essential regulator of most, if not all, signalling pathways, and defects in
cellular signalling are central to cancer initiation, progression and, eventually, metastasis …

Polygenic basis and biomedical consequences of telomere length variation

V Codd, Q Wang, E Allara, C Musicha, S Kaptoge… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Telomeres, the end fragments of chromosomes, play key roles in cellular proliferation and
senescence. Here we characterize the genetic architecture of naturally occurring variation in …

PML nuclear bodies and chromatin dynamics: catch me if you can!

A Corpet, C Kleijwegt, S Roubille, F Juillard… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic cells compartmentalize their internal milieu in order to achieve specific reactions
in time and space. This organization in distinct compartments is essential to allow …

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 …

USP7 is a master regulator of genome stability

GJ Valles, I Bezsonova, R Woodgate… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Genetic alterations, including DNA mutations and chromosomal abnormalities, are primary
drivers of tumor formation and cancer progression. These alterations can endow cells with a …

USP7-a crucial regulator of cancer hallmarks

G Saha, S Roy, M Basu, MK Ghosh - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the course of three decades of study, the deubiquitinase Herpesvirus associated
Ubiquitin-Specific Protease/Ubiquitin-Specific Protease 7 (HAUSP/USP7) has gradually …

Alternative lengthening of telomeres: building bridges to connect chromosome ends

SM Hoang, RJ O'Sullivan - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) is a mechanism of telomere maintenance that is
observed in many of the most recalcitrant cancer subtypes. Telomeres in ALT cancer cells …

[HTML][HTML] POT1-TPP1 telomere length regulation and disease

T Aramburu, S Plucinsky, E Skordalakes - Computational and Structural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Telomeres are DNA repeats at the ends of linear chromosomes and are replicated by
telomerase, a ribonucleoprotein reverse transcriptase. Telomere length regulation and …

Telomere maintenance mechanisms in cancer: telomerase, ALT or lack thereof

E Claude, A Decottignies - Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer cells acquire replicative immortality by activating a telomere maintenance
mechanism (TMM), either the telomerase or the Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) …