rs2736098, a synonymous polymorphism, is associated with carcinogenesis and cell count in multiple tissue types by regulating TERT expression

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rs2736098 is a synonymous polymorphism in TERT (telomerase reverse transcriptase), an enzyme involved in tumor onset of multiple tissues, and should play no roles in carcinogenesis. However, a search in cancer somatic mutation database indicated that the mutation frequency at rs2736098 is much higher than the average one for TERT. Moreover, there are significant H3K4me1 and H3K27Ac signals, two universal histone modifications for active enhancers, surrounding rs2736098. Therefore, we hypothesized that rs2736098 might be within an enhancer region, regulate TERT expression and influence cancer risk. Through luciferase assay, it was verified that the enhancer activity of rs2736098C allele is significantly higher than that of T in multiple tissues. Transfection of plasmids containing TERT coding region with two different alleles indicated that rs2736098C allele can induce a significantly higher TERT expression than T. By chromatin immunoprecipitation, it was observed that the fragment spanning rs2736098 can interact with USF1 (upstream transcription factor 1). The two alleles of rs2736098 present evidently different binding affinity with nuclear proteins. Database and literature search indicated that rs2736098 is significantly associated with carcinogenesis in multiple tissues and count of multiple cell types. All these facts indicated that rs2736098 is also an oncogenic polymorphism and plays important role in cell proliferation.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

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Heliyon - 10(2024), 6 vom: 30. März, Seite e27802

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Xin-Xin [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Xin-Yi [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Shuang-Jia [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Xiao-Qian [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Chang [VerfasserIn]

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Breast cancer
Cell proliferation
Journal Article
Rs2736098
Rs2736108
TERT

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Date Revised 19.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27802

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NLM369865553