Hypoxia as a potential inducer of immune tolerance, tumor plasticity and a driver of tumor mutational burden: Impact on cancer immunotherapy

R Abou Khouzam, B Janji, J Thiery, RF Zaarour… - Seminars in Cancer …, 2023 - Elsevier
In cancer patients, immune cells are often functionally compromised due to the
immunosuppressive features of the tumor microenvironment (TME) which contribute to the …

The importance of hypoxia in radiotherapy for the immune response, metastatic potential and FLASH-RT

EJ Moon, K Petersson, MM Olcina - International journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Hypoxia (low oxygen) is a common feature of solid tumors that has been intensely
studied for more than six decades. Here we review the importance of hypoxia to …

Genomics of post-bottleneck recovery in the northern elephant seal

AR Hoelzel, GA Gkafas, H Kang, F Sarigol… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Populations and species are threatened by human pressure, but their fate is variable. Some
depleted populations, such as that of the northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) …

Senataxin and R-loops homeostasis: multifaced implications in carcinogenesis

V Gatti, S De Domenico, G Melino, A Peschiaroli - Cell Death Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
R-loops are inherent byproducts of transcription consisting of an RNA: DNA hybrid and a
displaced single-stranded DNA. These structures are of key importance in controlling …

Tumor hypoxia drives genomic instability

M Tang, E Bolderson, KJ O'Byrne… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. As a common characteristic of cancer,
hypoxia is associated with poor prognosis due to enhanced tumor malignancy and …

Senataxin mediates R-loop resolution on HPV episomes

L Jose, K Smith, A Crowner, EJ Androphy… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Three-stranded DNA–RNA structures known as R-loops that form during papillomavirus
transcription can cause transcription–replication conflicts and lead to DNA damage. We …

Hypoxia-induced transcriptional stress is mediated by ROS-induced R-loops

TS Ma, KR Worth, C Maher, N Ng, C Beghè… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Hypoxia is a common feature of solid tumors and is associated with poor patient prognosis,
therapy resistance and metastasis. Radiobiological hypoxia (< 0.1% O2) is one of the few …

R-loops and R-loop-binding proteins in cancer progression and drug resistance

N Elsakrmy, H Cui - International journal of molecular sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
R-loops are three-stranded DNA/RNA hybrids that form by the annealing of the mRNA
transcript to its coding template while displacing the non-coding strand. While R-loop …

USP11 controls R-loops by regulating senataxin proteostasis

M Jurga, AA Abugable, ASH Goldman… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
R-loops are by-products of transcription that must be tightly regulated to maintain genomic
stability and gene expression. Here, we describe a mechanism for the regulation of the R …

Links between the unfolded protein response and the DNA damage response in hypoxia: a systematic review

H Bolland, TS Ma, S Ramlee… - Biochemical Society …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Hypoxia is a feature of most solid tumours and predicts for poor prognosis. In radiobiological
hypoxia (< 0.1% O2) cells become up to three times more resistant to radiation. The …