Telomerase in cancer: function, regulation, and clinical translation

NJ Robinson, WP Schiemann - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cells undergoing malignant transformation must circumvent replicative
senescence and eventual cell death associated with progressive telomere shortening that …

[HTML][HTML] Inside the stemness engine: Mechanistic links between deregulated transcription factors and stemness in cancer

EH Ervin, R French, CH Chang, S Pauklin - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cell identity is largely determined by its transcriptional profile. In tumour, deregulation of
transcription factor expression and/or activity enables cancer cell to acquire a stem-like state …

Cancer-associated dysregulation of sumo regulators: Proteases and ligases

N Lara-Ureña, V Jafari… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
SUMOylation is a post-translational modification that has emerged in recent decades as a
mechanism involved in controlling diverse physiological processes and that is essential in …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution structural-omics of human liver enzymes

CC Su, M Lyu, Z Zhang, M Miyagi, W Huang, DJ Taylor… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
We applied raw human liver microsome lysate to a holey carbon grid and used cryo-electron
microscopy (cryo-EM) to define its composition. From this sample we identified and …

The Altered Functions of Shelterin Components in ALT Cells

Y Zhang, K Hou, J Tong, H Zhang, M Xiong… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes that cap the ends of eukaryotic linear
chromosomes. Telomeric DNA is bound by shelterin protein complex to prevent telomeric …

Possible molecular mechanisms underlying the development of atherosclerosis in cancer survivors

P Banerjee, JE Rosales, K Chau… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cancer survivors undergone treatment face an increased risk of developing atherosclerotic
cardiovascular disease (CVD), yet the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Recent …

RAP1/TERF2IP—a multifunctional player in cancer development

A Deregowska, M Wnuk - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary RAP1 (TERF2IP) is a member of the shelterin complex that protects
telomeric DNA and plays a critical role in maintaining chromosome stability. However …

Toward structural-omics of the bovine retinal pigment epithelium

CE Morgan, Z Zhang, M Miyagi, M Golczak… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
The use of an integrated systems biology approach to investigate tissues and organs has
been thought to be impracticable in the field of structural biology, where the techniques …

Exploring the structures and functions of macromolecular SLX4-nuclease complexes in genome stability

BJ Payliss, A Patel, AC Sheppard, HDM Wyatt - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
All organisms depend on the ability of cells to accurately duplicate and segregate DNA into
progeny. However, DNA is frequently damaged by factors in the environment and from …

Comprehensive interactome mapping of the DNA repair scaffold SLX4 using proximity labeling and affinity purification

CM Aprosoff, BJA Dyakov, VHW Cheung… - Journal of Proteome …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The DNA repair scaffold SLX4 has pivotal roles in cellular processes that maintain genome
stability, most notably homologous recombination. Germline mutations in SLX4 are …