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) …

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 …

Role of telomere length in human carcinogenesis

A Tsatsakis, T Oikonomopoulou… - International …, 2023 - spandidos-publications.com
Cancer is considered the most important clinical, social and economic issue regarding
cause‑specific disability‑adjusted life years among all human pathologies. Exogenous …

Telomere maintenance mechanisms in cancer

T Bordeira Gaspar, A Sá, JM Lopes… - Genes, 2018 - mdpi.com
Tumour cells can adopt telomere maintenance mechanisms (TMMs) to avoid telomere
shortening, an inevitable process due to successive cell divisions. In most tumour cells …

Telomere function and regulation from mouse models to human ageing and disease

C Jones-Weinert, L Mainz, J Karlseder - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Telomeres protect the ends of chromosomes but shorten following cell division in the
absence of telomerase activity. When telomeres become critically short or damaged, a DNA …

Interpretable deep learning uncovers cellular properties in label-free live cell images that are predictive of highly metastatic melanoma

A Zaritsky, AR Jamieson, ES Welf, A Nevarez, J Cillay… - Cell systems, 2021 - cell.com
Deep learning has emerged as the technique of choice for identifying hidden patterns in cell
imaging data but is often criticized as" black box." Here, we employ a generative neural …

Telomere maintenance mechanisms define clinical outcome in high-risk neuroblastoma

B Koneru, G Lopez, A Farooqi, KL Conkrite, TH Nguyen… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer with heterogeneous clinical outcomes. To
comprehensively assess the impact of telomere maintenance mechanism (TMM) on clinical …

ALT neuroblastoma chemoresistance due to telomere dysfunction–induced ATM activation is reversible with ATM inhibitor AZD0156

B Koneru, A Farooqi, TH Nguyen, WH Chen… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Cancers overcome replicative immortality by activating either telomerase or an alternative
lengthening of telomeres (ALT) mechanism. ALT occurs in~ 25% of high-risk …

Telomerase activation and ATRX mutations are independent risk factors for metastatic pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma

S Job, I Draskovic, N Burnichon, A Buffet, J Cros… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Abstract Purpose: Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGLs) are rare
neuroendocrine tumors. Whereas most PPGLs are benign, up to 20% may become …

[HTML][HTML] Extensive proliferation of human cancer cells with ever-shorter telomeres

RA Dagg, HA Pickett, AA Neumann, CE Napier… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Acquisition of replicative immortality is currently regarded as essential for malignant
transformation. This is achieved by activating a telomere lengthening mechanism (TLM) …