Publications by Rita Valador Fernandes

The THO complex counteracts TERRA R-loop-mediated telomere fragility in telomerase(+) cells and telomeric recombination in ALT(+) cells

Telomeres are the nucleoprotein structures at the ends of linear chromosomes. Telomeres are transcribed into long non-coding Telomeric Repeat-Containing RNA (TERRA), whose functions rely on its ability to associate with telomeric chromatin. The conserved T ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

Regulation and impact of TERRA R-loops at human telomeres

Rita Valador Fernandes

Telomeres are the nucleoprotein structures found at the ends of linear chromosomes. They ensure that the termini of chromosomes are not inappropriately recognized as sites of DNA damage, and are therefore crucial for genome stability. In spite of the heter ...

EPFL2023

Detection of TERRA R-Loops at Human Telomeres

Joachim Lingner, Galina Glousker, Marianna Feretzaki, Rita Valador Fernandes

R-loops are three-stranded nucleic acid structures composed of a DNA–RNA hybrid and a displaced DNA strand. The long noncoding RNA TERRA forms R-loops at telomeres influencing the telomeric chromatin composition and impacting on telomere maintenance mechan ...

Springer US2022

The makings of TERRA R-loops at chromosome ends

Joachim Lingner, Marianna Feretzaki, Rita Valador Fernandes

Telomeres protect chromosome ends from nucleolytic degradation, uncontrolled recombination by DNA repair enzymes and checkpoint signaling, and they provide mechanisms for their maintenance by semiconservative DNA replication, telomerase and homologous reco ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2021

RAD51-dependent recruitment of TERRA lncRNA to telomeres through R-loops

Joachim Lingner, Thomas Frédéric Lunardi, Marianna Feretzaki, Rita Valador Fernandes

Telomeres-repeated, noncoding nucleotide motifs and associated proteins that are found at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes-mediate genome stability and determine cellular lifespan1. Telomeric-repeat-containing RNA (TERRA) is a class of long noncoding RNA ...

2020

Silencing of CEBPB-AS1 modulates CEBPB expression and resensitizes BRAF-inhibitor resistant melanoma cells to vemurafenib

Rita Valador Fernandes

Introduction of targeted therapy in the treatment of metastatic cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) has improved clinical outcome during the last years. However, only in a subset of the CMM patients, this will lead to long-term effects. CEBPB is a transcrip ...

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS2020