Telomeres and telomere length: a general overview

N Srinivas, S Rachakonda, R Kumar - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Telomeres are highly conserved tandem nucleotide repeats that include proximal double-
stranded and distal single-stranded regions that in complex with shelterin proteins afford …

An update on the roles of circular RNAs in osteosarcoma

Z Li, X Li, D Xu, X Chen, S Li, L Zhang… - Cell …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone malignancy and is a neoplasm thought to
be derived from the bone‐forming mesenchymal stem cells. Aberrant activation of …

Proteome-wide mapping of short-lived proteins in human cells

J Li, Z Cai, LP Vaites, N Shen, DC Mitchell, EL Huttlin… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Rapid protein degradation enables cells to quickly modulate protein abundance.
Dysregulation of short-lived proteins plays essential roles in disease pathogenesis. A …

DAXX in cancer: phenomena, processes, mechanisms and regulation

I Mahmud, D Liao - Nucleic acids research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
DAXX displays complex biological functions. Remarkably, DAXX overexpression is a
common feature in diverse cancers, which correlates with tumorigenesis, disease …

ALT positivity in human cancers: prevalence and clinical insights

D MacKenzie Jr, AK Watters, JT To, MW Young… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Since it was first described over two decades ago, the Alternative
Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) pathway has been well accepted to hold clinical …

DAXX-ATRX regulation of p53 chromatin binding and DNA damage response

N Gulve, C Su, Z Deng, SS Soldan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
DAXX and ATRX are tumor suppressor proteins that form a histone H3. 3 chaperone
complex and are frequently mutated in cancers with the alternative lengthening of telomeres …

Solid tumours hijack the histone variant network

FG Ghiraldini, D Filipescu, E Bernstein - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is a complex disease characterized by loss of cellular homeostasis through genetic
and epigenetic alterations. Emerging evidence highlights a role for histone variants and their …

Advances in targeted therapy for osteosarcoma based on molecular classification

Y Chen, R Liu, W Wang, C Wang, N Zhang… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Osteosarcoma, a highly malignant tumor, is characterized by widespread and recurrent
chromosomal and genetic abnormalities. In recent years, a number of elaborated …

Histone demethylase KDM2A is a selective vulnerability of cancers relying on alternative telomere maintenance

F Li, Y Wang, I Hwang, JY Jang, L Xu, Z Deng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Telomere length maintenance is essential for cellular immortalization and tumorigenesis.
5%− 10% of human cancers rely on a recombination-based mechanism termed alternative …

Telomere-related markers for cancer

X Yuan, M Dai, D Xu - Current topics in medicinal chemistry, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Telomeres are structurally nucleoprotein complexes at termini of linear chromosomes and
essential to chromosome stability/integrity. In normal human cells, telomere length erodes …