TERT Recombinant Monoclonal Antibody

1. Results not only identify quadruplex formation in the first exon promoted by CpG dinucleotide methylation as a regulator of hTERT expression but also provide a possible mechanistic insight into the regulation of gene expression via secondary DNA structures. PMID: 29084850
2. Findings indicate a critical role for hTERT in regulating the epigenetic clock, in addition to its established role of compensating for cell replication-dependent telomere shortening. PMID: 29374233
3. CTC1-STN1 terminates TERT while STN1-TEN1 enables C-strand synthesis during telomere replication in colon cancer cells. PMID: 30026550
4. Results show that TERT promoter (TERTp) mutations were detected in 8.5% of papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs) with the C228T mutation being the most frequent. Moreover, three novel TERTp alterations were identified, which may play a role in PTC aggressiveness. Also, TERTp hotspot mutations were highly correlated with BRAF V600E mutation and their coexistence was significantly associated with gender and advanced stage. PMID: 30200646
5. Presence of TERT promoter mutation is associated with shorter progression free survival and overall survival in meningiomas WHO grade II and III PMID: 29808339
6. These data suggest that genetic and epigenetic alterations of TERT are associated with TERT upregulation and may predict clinical outcomes in and young adults melanoma. PMID: 28378855
7. We further characterized those epitopes using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and here we discuss the critical epitope of an anti-TERT mAb, which is applicable for immunohistochemical analysis PMID: 30004263
8. TERT-p in spitzoid lesions is not necessarily a predictor of poor prognosis PMID: 27930864
9. there is an association between TERT promoter mutations and MC1R variants in melanoma patients PMID: 27930874
10. The results indicate that the association with chr5p15.33-Region 2 may be explained by rs36115365, a variant influencing TERT expression via ZNF148 in a manner consistent with elevated TERT in carriers of the C allele. PMID: 28447668
11. The identified uncommon TERT promoter mutations exacerbate the poor prognosis characteristic of ovarian clear cell carcinoma cases, and the hotspot mutations appear to be a molecular feature of the adenofibroma-associated form of the disease. PMID: 29474637
12. hTERT contains a BH3-like motif, a short peptide sequence found in BCL-2 family proteins, and interacts with anti-apoptotic BCL-2 family proteins MCL-1 and BCL-xL PMID: 29937479
13. TERT mutation predicted malignant behavior in three cases of follicular thyroid tumors. PMID: 29860621
14. the combination of the TERT promoter/BRAFV600E mutations and Ki-67 LI is a promising marker to predict recurrence of PTC. PMID: 28150740
15. our study verified the correlations of TGFBR2 and hTERT in vitro and suggests that TGFBR2 and hTERT expression may be used as a diagnostic biomarker for cervical dysplasia and carcinoma. PMID: 28195144
16. epigenetic alterations of the TERT promoter are frequent and associated with advanced disease and poorer clinical outcome in adrenocortical carcinoma. PMID: 29956721
17. TERT promoter mutations are conserved in the majority of morphologically, spatially and temporally distinct components of a given urothelial carcinoma PMID: 28741734
18. hTERT Genetic Polymorphisms and Leukocyte Telomere Length Shortenings are associated with Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. PMID: 29936725
19. TERT Promoter Mutation and Telomere Length is associated with Salivary Gland Tumors. PMID: 28664476
20. hTERT promoter methylation status revealed non-significant trend towards increase in methylation frequency in head and neck cancer patients compared to healthy individuals. PMID: 30088231
21. TERT could induce thyroid carcinoma cell proliferation mainly through the PTEN/AKT signaling pathway. PMID: 29901196
22. There was significant prognostic difference among the 4 glioma subtypes. Combined IDH and TERT gene mutation analysis may be useful for prognostic subgrouping. Notably, IDH1 wild-type cases can be further subdivided into TERT(+ ) or (-) subgroups with significant prognostic difference. PMID: 30220117
23. EGF significantly upregulated RFPL3 and hTERT protein levels in the nonsmall cell lung cancer cells. RFPL3 and hTERT proteins upregulation by EGF were attenuated by pretreatment with AG1478 and erlotinib. EGF promoted proliferation and inhibited apoptosis; PD98059 decreased RFPL3 and hTERT protein expression; and RFPL3 overexpression increased the expression of hTERT and related MEKpathway proteins PMID: 29749533
24. TERT protein expression may be regulated by several mechanisms in addition to its promoter mutation. PMID: 29693015
25. Letter: TERT promoter mutation is a genetic cognate of urothelial papilloma, papillary urothelial neoplasm of low malignant potential and urothelial carcinoma, further supporting the hypothesis that TERT mutation is a frequent and early step in the transformation of many urothelial neoplasms. PMID: 28040359
26. hTERT promoter mutations associate with aggressive histopathological features, indicating a role in tumour progression in solitary fibrous tumours. PMID: 29703757
27. Here it was found that there was no statistical difference between human TERT rs2736109 G>A, rs2735940 T>C, rs2853669 A>G, rs2736098 G>A, and rs2736100 T>G polymorphisms that can be associated with risk of Breast Cancer in a Turkish population. PMID: 29506639
28. the TERT promoter mutation may serve as a biomarker of prognostic stratification in patients with papillary urothelial neoplasm of low malignant potential PMID: 29193225
29. TERT promoter mutations are very rare in urachal adenocarcinomas (unlike in urothelial carcinoma). PMID: 29047227
30. Binary logistic regression analysis showed significant association of TERT rs2736100C with gallbladder carcinoma risk. PMID: 29450669
31. We found that THOR is hypermethylated in pancreatic tumor tissue when compared with normal tissue and that THOR methylation correlates with TERT expression in tumor samples. Our preliminary findings support the diagnostic and prognostic values of THOR in pancreatic cancer. PMID: 29019414
32. TERT structural rearrangements are associated with metastatic pheochromocytomas. PMID: 28974544
33. occurrence of TERT promoter mutations has a pivotal role in the disease progression as a secondary genetic event at a time when tumor cells face the need for telomere elongation to allow further proliferation. PMID: 29463038
34. TERT rs2736098: G>A genotype distribution did not differ significantly between patients with DLBCL and controls. PMID: 28967095
35. that the rs401681 polymorphism in the TERT-CLPTM1L locus contributes to lung carcinogenesis only in patients harboring an EGFR mutation PMID: 29033187
36. Mutated Liquid-based FNAs BRAF, N/HRAS and TERT mutations were significantly associated with malignancy regardless of the cytological classification PMID: 29094776
37. TERT promoter mutations were likely to occur in BRAF V600E positive thyroid cancer. Patients with these 2 combined mutations were more likely to have a poor prognosis and outcome. PMID: 30024548
38. maternal genetic variations in hTERT may play a contributory role in risk of PTL and PPROM PMID: 29771920
39. the mutational status of BRAF, NRAS, and TERT promoter genes in 97 melanomas, was investigated. PMID: 29061376
40. PSMA, TERT, and PDEF may serve as a reference for clinical diagnosis and as potential targets for the malignant tumor of the prostate therapeutics PMID: 28829509
41. In chronic kidney disease patients, telomerase activity in PBMC was positively correlated with the CKD stage, serum creatinine, potassium and parathormone levels, and negatively correlated with estimated glomerular filtration rate, body mass index, platelet count and serum calcium levels. PMID: 28705647
42. experimental evidence for association of higher plasma levels of hTERT with overall survival of both low and high grade patients, presenting hTERT as an independent prognostic marker. PMID: 28756592
43. Tumor suppressor functions of MCPH1/BRIT1 and BRCA1; links with the inactivation of the functional form of hTERT and the activation of dominant negative splice variants of hTERT. PMID: 29860064
44. results reveal that TERT promoter mutations may contribute significantly to biomarker-based classification of malignant gliomas. PMID: 28868656
45. Although Genome-Wide Association studies have not been carried out in the field of alcohol-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), common single nucleotide polymorphisms conferring a small increase in the risk of liver cancer risk have been identified. Specific patterns of gene mutations including CTNNB1, TERT, ARID1A and SMARCA2 exist in alcohol-related HCC. [review] PMID: 28296015
46. Mutation frequency in promoter region in non-acral cutaneous metastatic melanoma. PMID: 27301352
47. a papillary carcinoma harboring TERT promoter mutation is at higher risk for anaplastic transformation PMID: 28731042
48. Meta-analysis: The combination of BRAF and TERT promoter mutations could classify PTCs into four distinct risk groups with decreasing aggressiveness as follows: coexisting BRAF and TERT > TERT alone=BRAF alone > no mutations. PMID: 28666074
49. A total of 13 articles and 15 case-control studies, including 9,157 cases and 11,073 controls, were included in this meta-analysis. Overall, the pooled results indicated that the rs2853669 polymorphism was significantly associated with increased cancer risk in a homozygote comparison model. PMID: 29534075
50. Authors identified two cancer-specific methylation sites (CpG1 and 2) in the TERT promoter in tumors from GIC patients. Methylated TERT promoter CpG sites 1 and 2 were detectable in patient stool, while only background levels were observed in healthy individuals. PMID: 28754720

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HGNC: 11730

OMIM: 178500

KEGG: hsa:7015

STRING: 9606.ENSP00000309572

UniGene: Hs.492203