TERT expression is associated with metastasis from thin primaries, exhausted CD4+ T cells in melanoma and with DNA repair across cancer entities

• Christina Katharina Kuhn ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Susanne.Horn@medizin.uni-leipzig.de (SH); Christina.Kuhn@medizin.uni-leipzig.de (CKK)

  Affiliation Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Medical Faculty, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6705-9048

  ⨯
• Jaroslawna Meister,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Medical Faculty, Leipzig, Germany, Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Centre, Leibniz Centre for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

  ⨯
• Sophia Kreft,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, and German Cancer Consortium Partner Site Essen/Düsseldorf, Essen, Germany

  ⨯
• Mathias Stiller,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

  ⨯
• Sven-Holger Puppel,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Medical Faculty, Leipzig, Germany

  ⨯
• Anne Zaremba,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, and German Cancer Consortium Partner Site Essen/Düsseldorf, Essen, Germany

  ⨯
• Björn Scheffler,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation DKFZ-Division Translational Neurooncology at the West German Cancer Center, University Hospital Essen/University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  ⨯
• Vivien Ullrich,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation DKFZ-Division Translational Neurooncology at the West German Cancer Center, University Hospital Essen/University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  ⨯
• Torsten Schöneberg,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Medical Faculty, Leipzig, Germany, School of Medicine, University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5313-0237

  ⨯
• Dirk Schadendorf,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, and German Cancer Consortium Partner Site Essen/Düsseldorf, Essen, Germany

  ⨯
• Susanne Horn

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Susanne.Horn@medizin.uni-leipzig.de (SH); Christina.Kuhn@medizin.uni-leipzig.de (CKK)

  Affiliations Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Medical Faculty, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, and German Cancer Consortium Partner Site Essen/Düsseldorf, Essen, Germany

  ⨯