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Identification of molecular link between telomeres and telomerase and investigation of the mechanism underlying telomerase recruitment and activation

Funder: Cancer Research UK
Duration: December 2010 - August 2017

People

Name Telephone Email Office
Dr Kazunori Tomita Dr Kazunori Tomita
Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences
(Principal investigator)
E: kazunori.tomita@brunel.ac.uk
kazunori.tomita@brunel.ac.uk Heinz Wolff 226

Outputs

Goncalves, T., Zoumpoulidou, G., Alvarez-Mendoza, C., Mancusi, C., Collopy, L., Strauss, S., et al. (2020) 'Selective Elimination of Osteosarcoma Cell Lines with Short Telomeres by Ataxia Telangiectasia and Rad3-Related Inhibitors'. ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, 3 (6). pp. 1253 - 1264. ISSN: 2575-9108 Open Access Link

Journal article

Balogh, E., Chandler, JC., Varga, M., Tahoun, M., Menyhárd, DK., Schay, G., et al. (2020) 'Pseudouridylation defect due to DKC1 and NOP10 mutations causes nephrotic syndrome with cataracts, hearing impairment, and enterocolitis'. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (26). pp. 1 - 42. ISSN: 0027-8424 Open Access Link

Journal article

Collopy, LC. and Tomita, K. (2019) 'Telomerase and immortalisation', in Pezzella, F., Tavassoli, M. and Kerr, D. (eds.) Oxford Textbook of Cancer Biology. Oxford University Press. , 1. pp. 209 - 220. ISBN 10: 0198779453. ISBN 13: 9780198779452.

Book chapter

Tomita, K. and Collopy, LC. (2018) 'Telomeres, Telomerase, and Cancer', in Boffetta, P. and Hainaut, P. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Cancer, 3rd edition. Academic Press. , 3. pp. 437 - 454. ISBN 10: 0128124849. ISBN 13: 9780128012383.

Book chapter

Tummala, H., Collopy, LC., Walne, AJ., Ellison, A., Cardoso, S., Aksu, T., et al. (2018) 'Homozygous OB-fold variants in telomere protein TPP1 are associated with dyskeratosis congenita–like phenotypes'. Blood, 132 (12). pp. 1349 - 1353. ISSN: 0006-4971 Open Access Link

Journal article

Tomita, K. (2018) 'How long does telomerase extend telomeres? Regulation of telomerase release and telomere length homeostasis'. Current Genetics, 64 (6). pp. 1177 - 1181. ISSN: 0172-8083 Open Access Link

Journal article

Collopy, LC., Ware, TL., Goncalves, T., Í Kongsstovu, S., Yang, Q., Amelina, H., et al. (2018) 'LARP7 family proteins have conserved function in telomerase assembly'. Nature Communications, 9 (1). pp. 1 - 8. ISSN: 2041-1723 Open Access Link

Journal article

Armstrong, CA., Moiseeva, V., Collopy, LC., Pearson, SR., Ullah, TR., Xi, ST., et al. (2017) 'Fission yeast Ccq1 is a modulator of telomerase activity'. Nucleic Acids Research, 46 (2). pp. 704 - 716. ISSN: 0305-1048 Open Access Link

Journal article

Armstrong, CA. and Tomita, K. (2017) 'Fundamental mechanisms of telomerase action in yeasts and mammals: Understanding telomeres and telomerase in cancer cells'. Open Biology, 7 (3). pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 2046-2441 Open Access Link

Journal article

Amelina, H., Moiseeva, V., Collopy, LC., Pearson, SR., Armstrong, CA. and Tomita, K. (2016) 'Sequential and counter-selectable cassettes for fission yeast'. BMC Biotechnology, 16 (1). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 1472-6750 Open Access Link

Journal article