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    The mitochondrial DNA common deletion as a potential biomarker of cancer-associated fibroblasts from skin basal and squamous cell carcinomas

    Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are components of the tumor microenvironment and represent appealing therapeutic targets for translational studies. Conventional protein-based biomarkers for CAFs have been...

    Gabriele A. Fontana, Michael R. MacArthur, Nadezhda Rotankova in Scientific Reports (2024)

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    Detection of UV-Induced Deletions in Mitochondrial DNA

    Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations are found in several human pathologies and are associated with aging. Deletion mutations in mtDNA result in the loss of essential genes for mitochondrial function. Over 250 ...

    Gabriele A. Fontana, Hailey L. Gahlon in Mitochondrial DNA (2023)

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    Rif1 S-acylation mediates DNA double-strand break repair at the inner nuclear membrane

    Rif1 is involved in telomere homeostasis, DNA replication timing, and DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway choice from yeast to human. The molecular mechanisms that enable Rif1 to fulfill its diverse r...

    Gabriele A. Fontana, Daniel Hess, Julia K. Reinert in Nature Communications (2019)

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    Rif1 maintains telomeres and mediates DNA repair by encasing DNA ends

    Structure determination and functional analyses of budding yeast Rif1 reveal a novel, hooked N-terminal DNA-binding domain required for telomere maintenance and checkpoint control and show that Rif1's role in ...

    Stefano Mattarocci, Julia K Reinert in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2017)