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Labib M, Sargent EH, Kelley SO. Electrochemical Methods for the Analysis of Clinically Relevant Biomolecules. Chem Rev 2016; 116:9001-90. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 555] [Impact Index Per Article: 69.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Mahmoud Labib
- Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3M2, Canada
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3M2, Canada
- Institute
of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
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Shi M, Zheng J, Liu C, Tan G, Qing Z, Yang S, Yang J, Tan Y, Yang R. SERS assay of telomerase activity at single-cell level and colon cancer tissues via quadratic signal amplification. Biosens Bioelectron 2016; 77:673-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2015.10.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2015] [Revised: 10/03/2015] [Accepted: 10/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Xu T, Rao Y, Zhu W, Guo F. Inhibition of cell growth and telomerase activity in osteosarcoma cells by DN-hTERT. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 26:601-3. [PMID: 17219980 DOI: 10.1007/s11596-006-0532-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In order to study the effects of dominant negative human telomerase reverse transcriptase (DN-hTERT) on cell growth and telomerase activity in osteosarcoma cell line MG63, MG63 cells were transfected with DN-hTERT-IRES2-EGFP9 (DN) or IRES2-EGF (I, blank vector) with lipofectamine 2000. The stably transfected cells were selected with G-418. Cell growth properties were examined under a fluorescence microscope. The hTERT mRNA expression was detected by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Telomerase activities were measured by TRAP-ELISE. The tumorigenicity was studied with tumor xenografts by subcutaneous injection of cancer cells into nude mice. The results showed that cell growth was suppressed in MG63 cells transfected with DN-hTERT. The hTERT mRNA was increased in N-hTERT transfected-MG63 cells (MG63/DN). The telomerase activity was 2.45-0.11 in MG63/DN cells, while 3.40+/-0.12 in the cells transfected with blank vector (MG63/I), (P<0.05); DN-hTERT-expressing clones did not form tumors in 2 weeks, but the ratio of tumorigenesis was 30 % in nude mice bearing MG63/I (P<0.01). It was concluded that DN-hTERT could specifically inhibit the cell growth and telomerase activity in MG63 cells.
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- Tao Xu
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China
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Xiao Y, Dane KY, Uzawa T, Csordas A, Qian J, Soh HT, Daugherty PS, Lagally ET, Heeger AJ, Plaxco KW. Detection of telomerase activity in high concentration of cell lysates using primer-modified gold nanoparticles. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 132:15299-307. [PMID: 20932008 DOI: 10.1021/ja106513f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Although the telomeric repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) has served as a powerful assay for detecting telomerase activity, its use has been significantly limited when performed directly in complex, interferant-laced samples. In this work, we report a modification of the TRAP assay that allows the detection of high-fidelity amplification of telomerase products directly from concentrated cell lysates. Briefly, we covalently attached 12 nm gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to the telomere strand (TS) primer, which is used as a substrate for telomerase elongation. These TS-modified AuNPs significantly reduce polymerase chain reaction (PCR) artifacts (such as primer dimers) and improve the yield of amplified telomerase products relative to the traditional TRAP assay when amplification is performed in concentrated cell lysates. Specifically, because the TS-modified AuNPs eliminate most of the primer-dimer artifacts normally visible at the same position as the shortest amplified telomerase PCR product apparent on agarose gels, the AuNP-modified TRAP assay exhibits excellent sensitivity. Consequently, we observed a 10-fold increase in sensitivity for cancer cells diluted 1000-fold with somatic cells. It thus appears that the use of AuNP-modified primers significantly improves the sensitivity and specificity of the traditional TRAP assay and may be an effective method by which PCR can be performed directly in concentrated cell lysates.
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- Yi Xiao
- Department of Physics, Materials Department, and Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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TONOOKA K, KABASHIMA T, SHIBATA T, TANG C, YU Z, KAI M. Facile Assay of Telomerase Activity Utilizing a DNA-detectable Chemiluminogenic Reagent. ANAL SCI 2008; 24:471-5. [DOI: 10.2116/analsci.24.471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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- Keiko TONOOKA
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University
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Wege H, Chui MS, Le HT, Tran JM, Zern MA. SYBR Green real-time telomeric repeat amplification protocol for the rapid quantification of telomerase activity. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:E3-3. [PMID: 12527792 PMCID: PMC140528 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gng003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The sensitive telomeric repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) permits telomerase detection in mammalian cell and tissue extracts with very low telomerase activity levels. Unfortunately, conventional TRAP assays require complex post-amplification procedures, such as polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and densitometry, to measure telomerase products. Therefore, a real-time quantitative TRAP assay (RQ-TRAP) was optimized in the present study and evaluated in comparison with a commercially available quantitative TRAP kit and by monitoring telomerase activity in human hepatocyte cultures, human hepatoma cell lines and telomerase reconstitution experiments. The novel real-time telomerase detection method has many advantages. Other than sample extraction and real-time cycling, no additional time-consuming steps have to be performed for telomerase quantification; reliable and linear telomerase quantification is possible down to single-cell dilutions without the interference of primer-dimer artifacts, and the costs are less. Moreover, the precision is similar to other amplification-based telomerase quantification assays and the results are comparable to data obtained with two commercially available assays. The closed-tube system reduces the risk of carryover contamination and supports high throughput. In conclusion, RQ-TRAP provides a new tool for the rapid and reliable quantification of telomerase activity.
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- Henning Wege
- Transplant Research Institute, University of California, Davis Medical Center, 4635 Second Avenue, Suite 1001, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
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Woynarowski JM. Targeting critical regions in genomic DNA with AT-specific anticancer drugs. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2002; 1587:300-8. [PMID: 12084472 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4439(02)00093-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Cellular DNA is not a uniform target for DNA-reactive drugs. At the nucleotide level, drugs recognize and bind short motifs of a few base pairs. The location of drug adducts at the genomic level depends on how these short motifs are distributed in larger domains. This aspect, referred to as region specificity, may be critical for the biological outcome of drug action. Recent studies demonstrated that certain minor groove binding (MGB) drugs, such as bizelesin, produce region-specific lesions in cellular DNA. Bizelesin binds mainly T(A/T)(4)A sites, which are on average scarce, but occasionally cluster in distinct minisatellite regions (200-1000 bp of approximately 85-100% AT), herein referred to as AT islands. Bizelesin-targeted AT islands are likely to function as strong matrix attachment regions (MARs), domains that organize DNA loops on the nuclear matrix. Distortion of MAR-like AT islands may be a basis for the observed inhibition of new replicon initiation and the extreme lethality of bizelesin adducts (<10 adducts/cell for cell growth inhibition). Hence, long AT-islands represent a novel class of critical targets for anticancer drugs. The AT island paradigm illustrates the potential of the concept of regional targeting as an essential component of the rational design of new sequence-specific DNA-reactive drugs.
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- Jan M Woynarowski
- Cancer Therapy and Research Center, Institute for Drug Development, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 14960 Omicron Drive, San Antonio, TX 78245, USA.
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Telomeres are the specialized ends of eukaryotic chromosomes, thought to have many functions, most importantly serving as a clock signaling entry into cellular senescence. These structures are maintained by the reverse transcriptase telomerase, a peculiar enzyme in both structure, since it contains its own template RNA and function, since it is inactivated in most normal tissues but activated in the vast majority of malignant tumors. These features have made telomerase a subject of intense investigation, both to understand its cellular role and regulation and to exploit its activation in cancer to develop drugs or diagnostic methods based on telomerase. This work gathers all the information currently available in the biological and clinical fields of telomerase research.
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Xu S, He M, Yu H, Cai X, Tan X, Lu B, Shu B. A quantitative method to measure telomerase activity by bioluminescence connected with telomeric repeat amplification protocol. Anal Biochem 2001; 299:188-93. [PMID: 11730342 DOI: 10.1006/abio.2001.5418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Telomerase is expected to be a new biomarker for cancer diagnosis. The telomeric repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) is a sensitive method to detect telomerase activity. However, TRAP and its modified protocols are not always suitable for measuring telomerase activity of a large number of clinical samples to diagnosis cancer because these methods generally require a time-consuming detection step such as gel electrophoresis. To improve the procedure for mass diagnosis, we applied bioluminescence to replace the detection step. Telomerase activity is measured by evaluating the amount of inorganic pyrophosphate generated in PCR amplification of telomerase elongation product, with use of the sensitive enzymatic luminometric inorganic pyrophosphate detection assay (ELIDA). TRAP connected with ELIDA (TRAP-ELIDA) can quantitatively detect telomerase activity within linearity from 2 to 1000 cell equivalents. The ELIDA signals accorded with results of TRAP-SYBR green staining, and the results of ELIDA were significantly correlated to those of TRAP connected with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (TRAP-ELISA) (r(2) = 0.992, P < 0.001). TRAP-ELIDA is a simple and sensitive method to quantify telomerase activity without time-consuming gel electrophoresis. Because TRAP-ELIDA measures telomerase activity with a luminometer, it could be applied to a large number of clinical samples at the same time.
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- S Xu
- National Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan 430030, People's Republic of China.
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Rama S, Suresh Y, Rao AJ. Regulation of telomerase during human placental differentiation: a role for TGFbeta1. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2001; 182:233-48. [PMID: 11514058 DOI: 10.1016/s0303-7207(01)00550-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The transient tumor-like attributes of the first-trimester placenta anchor the developing embryo to the uterine wall thus establishing a vital link between the mother and the fetus. Dysregulation of this invasive behavior and/or controlled proliferation of the placenta is associated with abnormal pregnancies. Several of these diseased states also exhibit aberrant telomerase activity, among other pathophysiological manifestations. Considering the strong correlation between telomerase activity and tumorigenesis, it was of interest to see whether the crucial processes of trophoblast proliferation and differentiation were brought about through the modulation of telomerase. Using two in vitro model systems of trophoblast differentiation, we demonstrate here that telomerase activity is negatively regulated during placental differentiation. We further show that this modulation is at the level of transcription of hTERT. We also propose a role for TGF beta1 in regulating telomerase activity in differentiating trophoblasts by down-regulating the expression of hTERT at the transcriptional level.
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- S Rama
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
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Schneider-Stock R, Emrich T, Peters B, Jaeger V, Roessner A. Analysis of human telomerase reverse transcriptase mRNA (hTERT) expression in myxoid liposarcomas using LightCycler real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. Electrophoresis 2001; 22:1098-101. [PMID: 11358132 DOI: 10.1002/1522-2683()22:6<1098::aid-elps1098>3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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We describe a convenient, nonradioactive reverse transcription--polymerase chain reaktion (RT-PCR) method for the rapid and accurate quantitative detection of the human telomerase catalytic subunit human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) mRNA. The LightCycler TeloTAGGG hTERT Quantification Kit (Roche Molecular Biochemicals) was designed to be used for the highly sensitive and quantitative detection of hTERT mRNA relative to the house-keeping gene porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD). As a tumor progression model, we investigated 26 myxoid liposarcomas (11 pure myxoid grade I, 15 myxoid/round cell grade II/III) for the hTERT expression level and compared the results of the new method with former measurements performed in silver-stained polyacrylamide gels. Both methods revealed similar results, with real-time RT-PCR being the more accurate quantification technique, which also saves time and material. Elevated hTERT expression (cut-off ratio x 100 at 1.3) was an indicator of round cell components and hence for tumor progression in myxoid liposarcoma. The new method is capable of differentiating between pure myxoid and myxoid/round cell liposarcomas for hTERT-expression more accurately.
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- R Schneider-Stock
- Department of Pathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
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