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- ZDB-FIG-250128-47
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- Lopes-Bastos et al., 2024 - The absence of telomerase leads to immune response and tumor regression in zebrafish melanoma
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Melanoma initiation does not require a telomere maintenance mechanism (A and B) Incidence of melanoma of mitfa:HRAS fish is not affected by the lack of telomerase. (A) Percentage of tumor-free fish compared between tert+/+ and tert−/− fish (log rank test). (B) Representative images of 3-month-old tert+/+ and tert−/− fish with melanoma expressing GFP. Scale bars: 0.5 cm. (C–E) tert mRNA maternal contribution does not explain carcinogenesis in tert−/− fish. (C and D) Representative images and quantification of unpigmented skin area of mitfa:HRAS:GFP, tert+/− and tert−/− fish at 1.5 months of age. n(tert+/− = 10; tert−/− = 5); unpaired t test. Scale bars: 0.5 cm. (E) Quantification of fish with tumors at 1.5 months of age. n(tert+/− = 10; tert−/− = 5); χ2 test. (F–H) Even though telomere shortening is not apparent between skin and tumor in tert−/− fish, there is telomere shortening in tert−/− skin/tumor when compared to tert+/+ fish. However, tert−/− tumors possess higher DNA damage at telomeres. (F) Telomere restriction fragment (TRF) analysis by Southern blotting of tumor (T) and skin (S) genomic DNA extracted from 3-month-old fish (yellow bars represent mean telomere length) and (G) quantifications for mean telomere length and (H) densitometries of TRFs (n = 4; one-way ANOVA). (I) Images of γH2Ax/telG immunofluorescence in situ hybridization (immune-FISH) of tumor cells derived from tert+/+ and tert−/− 3-month-old fish. White arrows indicate telomere dysfunction-induction foci (TIFs) in tumor cells. Scale bars: 6 μm. (J) Percentage of cells containing ≥5 TIFs from (I) (n = 3; unpaired t test). (K–M) Early-stage melanoma do not display TMMs. (K) Telomerase activity evaluated by TRAP of tumor samples derived from tert+/+ and tert−/− 3-month-old fish (n = 3). Extracts from HeLa and ZMEL cells were used as positive controls and U2OS as a negative control. (L) C-circle assay of tumor samples derived from tert+/+ and tert−/− 3-month-old fish. Extracts from HeLa cells and U2OS were used as negative and positive controls, respectively. (M) Quantification of C-circle signal (n = 4; one-way ANOVA). Error bars represent ± SEM; each dot represents an individual tumor; ∗∗p ≤ 0.01 and ∗∗∗∗p ≤ 0.0001. ns, not significant. |