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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2025

Oxidative Stress and DNA Damage at Telomeres.

Patricia L Opresko, Samantha L Sanford, Mariarosaria De Rosa

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Telomeric autophagy in human health, aging, and diseases.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Patricia L OpreskoDepartment of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA plo4@pitt.edu.
Samantha L SanfordUPMC Hillman Cancer Center at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232, USA.
Mariarosaria De RosaUPMC Hillman Cancer Center at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232, USA.

Funding

Supplement to Promote DiversityR35ES030396 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Patricia L Opresko · 2019 to 2026
$7.5M
Roles of Telomeric Oxidative DNA Lesions in Telomere Length RegulationR01CA207342 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Sua Myong, Patricia L Opresko · 2017 to 2026
$3.7M
Investigating how chemotherapeutic thiopurines inhibit telomerase elongation of telomeresF32CA275287 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SANFORD, SAMANTHA · 2023 to 2025
$226k
Investigating roles for oxidative guanine damage in transcription regulationK99ES035871 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI DE ROSA, MARIAROSARIA · 2024 to 2025
$221k
NCI NIH HHS F32 CA275287NCI NIH HHS R01 CA207342NIEHS NIH HHS K99 ES035871NIEHS NIH HHS R35 ES030396
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oxidative stress is associated with increasing telomere shortening and telomere dysfunction, as well as with numerous pathologies in humans, including inflammatory diseases and cancer. Critically short and dysfunctional telomeres lose their ability to protect chromosome ends, which triggers irreversible growth arrest, termed senescence, or genomic instability. Telomeres are highly sensitive to damage from reactive oxygen species, which increase under conditions of oxidative stress. This work covers the evidence that oxidative damage to telomeric DNA alters telomere maintenance by various mechanisms and describes the DNA repair pathways important for preserving telomere function under oxidative stress conditions.

Indexed as

DNA DamageOxidative StressTelomereAnimalsDNA RepairHumansReactive Oxygen SpeciesReactive Oxygen Species

Identifiers

PMID39929725
PMCPMC12128872

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