ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
Targeting Shelterin Proteins in Cancer
Telomeres are protective structures at the chromosome ends essential for genome stability. Telomere biology is intricately linked with human cancer. Most cancer cells reactivate telomerase to avoid telomere loss associated to cell division. Targeting telomerase inhibition in cancer has shown very limited efficacy, alternative or additional mechanisms of telomere maintenance are thus at play in cancer. Recent evidence shows that components of the telomere-protecting shelterin complex are mutated in cancer. Shelterin prevents chromosome fusions, impedes persistent DNA damage response at telomeres and regulates telomerase activity. We were first in describing shelterin mutations in cancer and…
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