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Pan-Cancer Analysis of Clinical Relevance via Telomere Maintenance Mechanism

Authors
 Ji-Yong Sung  ;  Jae-Ho Cheong 
Citation
 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, Vol.22(20) : 11101, 2021-10 
Journal Title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
ISSN
 1661-6596 
Issue Date
2021-10
Keywords
alternative lengthening of telomere ; non-defined telomere maintenance mechanism ; telomere maintenance mechanism
Abstract
Understanding the telomere maintenance mechanism (TMM) in immortal cancer cells is vital for TMM-targeted therapies in clinical settings. In this study, we classified four telomere maintenance mechanisms into telomerase, ALT, telomerase + ALT, and non-defined telomere maintenance mechanism (NDTMM) across 31 cancer types using 10,704 transcriptomic datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Our results demonstrated that approximately 50% of the total cohort displayed ALT activity with high telomerase activity in most cancer types. We confirmed significant patient prognoses according to distinct TMMs in six cancer types: adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), PAAD, HNSC, SARC, GBM, and metastatic cancer. Patients with metastasis had a poor prognosis in the ALT group (p < 0.006) subjected to RAS protein signal transduction. Glioblastoma patients had poor prognosis in NDTMM (p < 0.0043) and showed high levels of myeloid leukocyte activation. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (p < 0.04) and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (p < 0.046) patients had a good prognosis in the ALT group with high immune cell activation. Furthermore, we showed that master transcriptional regulators might affect the selection of the TMM pathway and explained why different telomere maintenance mechanisms exist. Furthermore, they can be used to segregate patients and predict responders to different TMM-targeted therapeutics.
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DOI
10.3390/ijms222011101
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1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Surgery (외과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Cheong, Jae Ho(정재호) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-1781
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/186862
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