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ArticleCancers2021

Analysis of TERT Isoforms across TCGA, GTEx and CCLE Datasets.

Mathushan Subasri, Parisa Shooshtari, Andrew J Watson, Dean H Betts

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mathushan SubasriDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada.
Parisa ShooshtariOntario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON M5G 0A3, Canada.
Andrew J WatsonDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada.
Dean H BettsDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5528-9142

Funding

Children's Health Research Institute Trainee AwardNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGSM)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reactivation of the multi-subunit ribonucleoprotein telomerase is the primary telomere maintenance mechanism in cancer, but it is rate-limited by the enzymatic component, telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT). While regulatory in nature, TERT alternative splice variant/isoform regulation and functions are not fully elucidated and are further complicated by their highly diverse expression and nature. Our primary objective was to characterize TERT isoform expression across 7887 neoplastic and 2099 normal tissue samples using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Genotype-Tissue Expression Project (GTEx), respectively. We confirmed the global overexpression and splicing shift towards full-length TERT in neoplastic tissue. Stratifying by tissue type we found uncharacteristic TERT expression in normal brain tissue subtypes. Stratifying by tumor-specific subtypes, we detailed TERT expression differences potentially regulated by subtype-specific molecular characteristics. Focusing on β-deletion splicing regulation, we found the NOVA1

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alternative splicingPan-Cancertelomerase reverse transcriptasetelomere maintenance mechanism

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PMID33924498
PMCPMC8070023

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