Telomeric RNAs are essential to maintain telomeres
Nature Communications, 2016 The telomeric long-non coding RNA, TERRA, has been proposed in the past to modulate different telomeric functions based on in vitrostudies. Here the authors show, using a genetic deletion approach, that TERRA is transcribed from the 20q subtelomere and ...
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AZT exerts its antitumoral effect by telomeric and non-telomeric effects in a mammary adenocarcinoma model [PDF]
, 2016 Limitless replicative potential is one of the hallmarks of cancer that is mainly due to the activity of telomerase. This holoenzyme maintains telomere length, adding TTAGGG repetitions at the end of chromosomes in each cell division.
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Oxidative stress, telomeres and cellular senescence: What non-drug interventions might break the link? [PDF]
, 2020 Telomeres are higher order structures that cap and protect chromosome ends. Telomeric DNA naturally shortens during somatic cell division and as a result of oxidative stress.
Erusalimsky, Jorge
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Haematologica, 2015 Aplastic anemia is a rare but life-threatening disorder characterized by cytopenia in at least two of the three blood lineages. A frequent feature of patients with aplastic anemia is that they have shorter telomeres than those of age-matched controls ...
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Extra-telomeric functions of telomerase in the pathogenesis of Epstein-Barr virus-driven B-cell malignancies and potential therapeutic implications [PDF]
, 2018 The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous human \u3b3-herpesvirus causally linked to a broad spectrum of both lymphoid and epithelial malignancies.
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The Rate of Increase of Short Telomeres Predicts Longevity in Mammals
Cell Reports, 2012 Aberrantly short telomeres result in decreased longevity in both humans and mice with defective telomere maintenance. Normal populations of humans and mice present high interindividual variation in telomere length, but it is unknown whether this is ...
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Structural basis of template-boundary definition in Tetrahymena telomerase. [PDF]
, 2015 Telomerase is required to maintain repetitive G-rich telomeric DNA sequences at chromosome ends. To do so, the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) subunit reiteratively uses a small region of the integral telomerase RNA (TER) as a template.
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iScience, 2019 Summary: Telomeres are considered potential anti-cancer targets. Most studies have focused on telomerase inhibition, but this strategy has largely failed in clinical trials.
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The association between telomerase activity and expression of its RNA component (hTR) in breast cancer patients: the importance of DNase treatment [PDF]
Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme that compensates for the telomere length shortening which occurs during the cell cycle. Telomerase activity has been detected in most tumours but not in somatic cells.
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KMT2A promotes melanoma cell growth by targeting hTERT signaling pathway. [PDF]
, 2017 Melanoma is an aggressive cutaneous malignancy, illuminating the exact mechanisms and finding novel therapeutic targets are urgently needed. In this study, we identified KMT2A as a potential target, which promoted the growth of human melanoma cells ...
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