Alternative lengthening of telomeres in childhood neuroblastoma from genome to proteome

Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) is associated with a poor outcome in neuroblastoma. Here, the authors find that ALT is associated with mutated ATRX and/or reduced protein abundance, frequent telomeric repeat loci and heterochromatic telomeric chromatin.

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Main Authors: Sabine A. Hartlieb, Lina Sieverling, Michal Nadler-Holly, Matthias Ziehm, Umut H. Toprak, Carl Herrmann, Naveed Ishaque, Konstantin Okonechnikov, Moritz Gartlgruber, Young-Gyu Park, Elisa Maria Wecht, Larissa Savelyeva, Kai-Oliver Henrich, Carolina Rosswog, Matthias Fischer, Barbara Hero, David T. W. Jones, Elke Pfaff, Olaf Witt, Stefan M. Pfister, Richard Volckmann, Jan Koster, Katharina Kiesel, Karsten Rippe, Sabine Taschner-Mandl, Peter Ambros, Benedikt Brors, Matthias Selbach, Lars Feuerbach, Frank Westermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21247-8