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Review

Telomere and Its Role in Diseases

Stephanie Wang¹, Chikezie O. Madu², Yi Lu³

1. Departments of Biology and Advanced Placement Biology, White Station High School, Memphis, Tennessee 38117. USA.
2. Departments of Biology and Advanced Placement Biology, White Station High School, Memphis, Tennessee 38117. USA.
3. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163. USA.

✉ Corresponding author: Yi Lu, Ph.D., Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Cancer Research Building, 19 South Manassas Street, Memphis, TN 38163 (USA), Tel.: (901) 448-5436, Fax.: (901) 448-5496, E-mail: yluedu More

Abstract

Telomeres are highly conservative repeated nucleotide sequences at the ends of linear chromosomes. Allowing effective DNA replication to keep the integrity of gene structure and the stability of chromosomes, telomeres protect the ends of the chromosome from deterioration or from fusion with neighboring chromosomes. Reduction in the telomere length leads to the cessation of cell division and thus cellular senescence. On the other hand, telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex with reverse transcriptase activity, protecting the telomere from being shortened. Thus, it is inactivated by synthesis and adds the repeated sequences onto the telomeres. Telomerase plays an important role in cell senescence and tumor formation.

Telomere length and telomerase activity may be mediated by immune, endocrine, and metabolic pathways and accelerate cellular dysfunction, ageing, and even induce cancer over one's lifespan. Significant attainment of telomerase to maintain telomere length could stop the cell senescence and aging related disease and also is required for the evolution of malignancy. This review discusses the role of telomeres and telomerase in humans during senescence and cancer. The evidence indicates that telomerase-induced telomere length manipulations could be targeted for anti-aging and anti-cancer therapy in the future.

Keywords: Telomere, anti-aging, anti-cancer therapy

Introduction

The relationship between aging and cancer is one of the most important subjects in human studies. Both are caused by cellular damage and regulated by the cellular damage stress regulation gene.

Aging is an inevitable time-dependent degenerative disease in human beings that causes irreversible accumulation of disadvantageous mutations, cell division inability, increasing disease sensitivity, and eventually death. [1] Although various models and model organisms have been employed to investigate the mechanism of aging, the cause of aging is still uncertain. In 1961, Hayflick found that there is a “limit” for the number of normal human cell divisions, “Hayflick limit.” This phenomenon of the limitation of cell division potential was called reproductive aging. His study proved that telomere shortening in humans eventually makes cell division impossible. This is the first-time people correlated telomere shortening with cell aging. [2] In 1998, Dr Bodnar [3] and Vazirimore [4] successfully exceeded the life-span of telomerase-negative normal human cell types through transfection with vectors encoding the human telomerase catalytic subunit. On the other side, the deficiencies in telomerase shorten telomeres and curtail the lifespan of mice. [5-7] It is well known that telomeres progressively shorten with increased aging and provide the biological clock mechanism for gene regulation over long periods of time without initializing a DNA damage signaling response. Since research has been found supporting that potentially harmful environmental factors or diseases are associated with short telomeres in humans, comparatively short telomere length has become the standard of poor health regardless of the person's age.

In contrast, dysfunctional telomeres can suppress cancer development by engaging replicative senescence or apoptotic pathways, but they can also promote tumor initiation. Telomerase protects telomeres from being shortened by adding repeated sequences. The telomerase level is low to undetectable in most somatic cells, which causes normal somatic cells to enter replicative senescence and undergo growth arrest or apoptosis; however, telomerase activity increases in about 85% of tumor cells. This overexpression of telomerase confers limitless replicative potential to tumor cells by abnormal continuous elongation of telomeres. [8] In 1994, Dr. Kim found that telomerase is activated in human malignant tissues but not in adjacent normal tissues. [9] The selective expression of telomerase in cancer cells provides evidence that telomerase activity could be used as a tumor indicator for effective diagnosis. Recently, valuable research from various laboratories has provided major insights into telomerase and telomeres, leading to their use as diagnostic and prognostic indicators in several types of cancer. [10] Considering the important role of telomerase in the maintenance of tumor cell growth, targeting telomeres throughout telomerase inhibition has been demonstrated to be an effective therapeutic strategy for cancers. [11, 12]

This review is an attempt to systematically analyze the role of telomeres and telomerase in regulating cell aging and cancer and the prospects for their use in anti-aging and anti-cancer.

Structure and Function of Telomeres

In humans, telomeres are composed of highly conservative repetitive nucleotide sequences and associated proteins. The telomeric DNA sequence is comprised of repeats, TTAGGGn, located at the end of linear chromosomes. [13] Telomeres stabilize chromosomes, preventing the fusion of their ends and also protecting the 3' end of the chromosome against exonucleases. [14, 15]

Telomeres normally terminate with 3′ single-stranded G-rich DNA overhang that extends beyond double-stranded DNA region, which is essential for telomere maintenance and capping. [16, 17] This 3′ end dangling chain folds back to telomere's double stranded region and pairs with the complementary strand to form a compact loop structure known as telomere loops, or T-loop. This triple-stranded structure is called a displacement loop or D-loop. Thus, the entire telomeric DNA sequence forms a lariat structure (D-T loop). [18] The T-loop at the end of chromosomes prevents the telomere ends from degrading or forming chromosomal fusion.

In human, shelterin is a significant protein complex that comprises six subunits and forms a cap structure, T-loop, at the end of chromosomes. Shelterin consists of two double stranded DNA binding proteins (TRF1 and TRF2), one TIN2 protein (linking TRF1 and TRF2), one single stranded DNA binding protein POT1, one ligate single double-stranded protein TPP1, and 1 core protein. Shelterin plays an important role in protecting chromosomal ends from all aspects of the DNA damage response and regulating telomere maintenance by telomerase. [19] (Figure 1)

 Figure 1 

Telomeres are special nucleoprotein structures that cap the termini of chromosomes. The end of the telomere inserts back into the main body of the telomere to form the T-loop (red) and D-loop (blue). Telomeric DNA is coated by shelterin proteins that regulate chromosomal end protection.

Structure and Function of Telomerase

As the biological clock of cells, progressive telomere shortening has an extremely important effect on cellular senescence and cancer. In human stem cells, telomeres are maintained by a special ribonucleoprotein enzyme, called telomerase, which compensates the loss of telomeric sequences by adding telomeres at the 3′ end of the telomeric overhang. Telomerase consists of a reverse transcriptase enzyme (TERT), an RNA template (TERC), and stabilizing proteins including dyskerin (encoded by DKC1 and TCAB1). [20, 21] Human telomerase RNA template is a single copy gene, composed of around 455 nucleotides. In the absence of a DNA template, telomerase extends telomeric oligonucleotide ends with its own RNA template and compensates for the missing telomere ends during cell division. [22]

The telomerase ribonucleoprotein complex actively maintains telomere length and resists telomere shortening. [23-26] In normal conditions, high-grade telomerase expression usually occurs in the early stages of stem cell and embryonic development. However, there is almost undetectable telomerase activity in normal human somatic cells. Therefore, human physiological aging is accompanied by the lowering telomerase activity and shortening of telomeres. This is also thought to be the basis of aging and age-related diseases and the life span of the body. [27] Telomerase overexpression can extend the replication cycle of primary cells indefinitely, even causing them to become cancer cells. [28]

Telomere Related Diseases and Therapies

Telomere shortening is the primary molecular cause of aging and the age-related diseases. Telomere shortening induces chromosomal instability triggering the different telomere-targeted diseases, including tumors. A summary of telomere-related diseases, molecular mechanisms of telomeres, and recent advancement in the clinical development are described in Table 1.

Immune Disease

One of the main characteristics of the immune system is the constant renewal of its cells. At the same time, this renewal is highly dependent on the efficiency of telomere maintenance. Unlike somatic cells, lymphocytes have a robust capability to proliferate given their clonal expansion and have telomerase overexpression. The telomerase overexpression prevents significant telomere shortening during each division. Immunosenescence, referring to the immune function deregulation, makes elderly individuals prone to not only infectious diseases but also to malignancy and autoimmunity. CD28 is one of the molecules expressed in T cells that provide costimulatory signals that are required for T-cell activation, T-cell proliferation, cytokine production, and T-cell survival promotion. In elderly individuals with chronic viral infections and autoimmune diseases (e.g., multiple sclerosis (MS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and Wegener's disease, an increase in the frequency of CD28^- T cells has been detected. [29, 30] Loss of CD28 expression is characterized by telomere shortening and reduced proliferative ability. The presence of CD28^- T cells in both elderly individuals and patients with autoimmune diseases (ADs) has supported the concept that ADs are closely related to the cell aging process.

Coronary Heart Disease

Due to close relationship between telomere length and coronary heart disease, genome-wide association studies have mapped leukocyte telomere length-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to genetic loci. Genetic risk scores (GRSs) based on these SNPs were developed to predict susceptibility to cardiovascular disease and major cancers. When the GRS predicts short leukocyte telomere length, the probability of developing cardiovascular disease is increased. [31] Codd et al. conducted a genetic risk assessment of telomerase mutation in 22,233 coronary heart disease patients and 64,762 controls. [32] The results proved an association of shorter leukocyte telomere length with increased risk of coronary artery disease. Their finding supports a causal role of telomere-length variation in some age-related diseases.

Hyperlipidemia

Hyperlipidemia is an early and main cause of coronary heart disease. Studies found that hypercholesterolemia caused a significant reduction in phenotypically defined long-term hematopoietic stem cell compartment, telomere length, and repopulation capacity of c-kit+ Thy-1.1lo lineage-/lo Sca-1+ (KTLS) cells, indicating accelerated aging in these cells. These effects were p38-dependent and reversed in vivo by treatment of hypercholesterolemic mice with antioxidant N-acetylcysteine. These results proved that hypercholesterolemia is also related to short telomere length. [33]

Diabetes

There is a growing body of evidence in support of an association between short telomeres and type 2 diabetes. It is proved that telomerase is important in maintaining glucose homeostasis in mice. [34] Conversely, elevated blood glucose levels increase oxidative stress, potentially interfering with telomerase function and resulting in shortened telomeres. [35] In the Strong Heart Family Study, Zhao et al. investigated the association of leukocyte telomere length at baseline with future risk of diabetes over an average follow-up period of over 5 years. The authors found that individuals in the lowest quartile of leukocyte telomere length were at almost twice the risk of developing diabetes compared with those with longer telomeres. [36] Injection of liver X ligands to high glucose fed rats increased telomeric catalytic subunit expression, inhibited arterial endothelial cell senescence, and improved the metabolism of triglycerides. [37]

Bone Marrow Failure

Genetic defects in telomere maintenance and repair cause telomere disease, like bone marrow failure, liver cirrhosis, and pulmonary fibrosis. In 2016, Dr. Danielle M. Townsley found that treatment with danazol, androgens, led to telomere elongation in patients with telomere diseases. In bone marrow failure patients, telomere attrition was reduced in all twelve patients who could be evaluated for the primary end point; unexpectedly, almost all the patients (eleven of twelve, 92%) had a gain in telomere length at 24 months. [38]

Telomere depletion is closely related to cell senescence. Diabetes, coronary heart disease, psychological stress, hormones, and high blood pressures are all risk factors to accelerate telomere shortening.

Cancer and Telomeres

As previously mentioned, telomere shortening is characteristic of normal cells, and telomerase is the main mechanism regulating telomere elongation. In humans, telomerase activity is known to be only up-regulated in the cells that need to maintain an active proliferative and renewal potential, such as embryonic stem cells and germ-line cells. In contrast, most cancers (85-90%) display telomerase activity. [39] Although tumors are likely to occur in cells with short telomeres and chromosomal instability, activation of telomerase activity and telomere maintenance are necessary conditions for most human tumor cells. [40] In 2013, Dr. Horn and Dr. Huang investigated the correlation of mutations within the core promoter of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), the gene coding for the catalytic subunit of telomerase, with melanoma in mouse and human respectively. [41, 42] Both of them found that these mutations increased transcriptional activity of the TERT promoter by two to four fold and promote the melanoma risk. These studies proved that somatic mutations in regulatory regions of the genome of telomerase may represent an important tumorigenic mechanism. Another study found that late-generation Terc-/- mice, which have short telomeres and are telomerase-deficient, are resistant to tumor development in multi-stage skin carcinogenesis. This result has led to the proposition that telomerase inhibition may result in the cessation of tumor growth. [43]

It is currently known that replicative senescence arises when progressive reduction of telomere length ends up with t-loop collapse and dysfunctional telomeres. [44] Consequently, this dysfunctional telomere becomes an open unprotected state that promotes genome instability, activate DNA damage response, and subsequently result in telomere fusion between distinct chromosomes or sister chromatids. [45, 46]

Similarly, telomere dysfunction, driven by shelterin modification, can also results in end-to-end chromosome fusions. [47]

Telomere dysfunction leads to DNA-damage signaling and activation of a series of cascade amplification reactions, which activates a series of the tumor-suppressor protein, including p53. P53 can prompt either cellular senescence or apoptosis and plays a critical role in protecting tissues against the tumors. The p53-dependent response to dysfunctional telomeres serves as a strong brake to tumor development in mouse models. [48] A common phenomenon in tumors is the neglect of the protective effect of tumor suppressors, especially in cells lacking p53 or having a mutation in p53. Unchecked telomere shortening drives chromosomal end-to-end fusions and cycles of chromosome fusion-bridge-breakage. The study on incipient cancer cells confirmed that these telomeres must disable p53 signaling to avoid senescence and eventually up-regulate telomerase to achieve cellular immortality. Animal studies where telomeres were rendered dysfunctional following conditional removal or hypomorphic mutations of shelterin proteins in combination with p53 mutations have indicated a high likelihood of tumor genesis. [49, 50] This result proved that circumvention of a telomere-p53 checkpoint is essential for malignant progression in human cancer.

In all, these findings demonstrate that telomere uncapping, either through loss of the G-rich overhang itself or by critically shortening the n (TTAGGG) tract of DNA, can trigger, in the setting of p53 deficiency, the genome instability that promotes the development of epithelial cancers. It has been found that telomerase deficiency may promote the early progression of cancer by increasing chromosomal instability. Subsequently, telomerase activation causes tumor cells to unlimitedly proliferate. [51]

There are other mechanisms to regulate telomere length, especially in cancer cells. Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) is a recombination-based mechanism that elongates telomeres in around 15% of immortalized cell lines and human cancer cells. [52, 53] Although the mechanism and causes of ALT are still not well-known, it is well accepted that this mechanism is based on homologous-recombination dependent exchange and/or homologous-recombination dependent synthesis of telomeric DNA. [54]

Regarding the important role of telomerase in the maintenance of tumor cell growth, telomerase inhibitors have been considered as potential therapies for the treatment of tumors. Dr. Bruedigam found that telomerase inhibitors, which competitively bind telomerase RNA component TERC, can effectively inhibit the incidence of acute myeloid leukemia and recurrence after chemotherapy. [55] Telomerase overexpression represents a potential treatment of age-related diseases. However, this approach takes the risk of causing cancer. So this treatment strategy should be performed carefully to ensure that it does not induce cancer development in patients with a deficiency in tumor suppressor mechanisms.

Aging and Telomeres

Mechanism of Aging and Telomeres

In humans, aging is the process of the accumulation of physical and psychological changes over time.

The main mechanism leading to senescence may be progressive DNA damage and progressive shortening of telomere length. [56] In 1973, Dr. Olovnikov first proposed the "telomere theory" of aging and found cellular senescence may be caused by loss of cell renewal ability due to some telomere-related gene mutation. [57] Dr. Harley refined this theory in 1990, arguing that the mechanism of cellular senescence is that highly differentiated somatic telomerase is inhibited and cannot compensate the telomere DNA loss during cell replication; thus, telomere length continues to decrease. [58]

When shortened to the critical limit, the telomeres trigger the signal that terminates cell division and activates the tumor suppressor gene, p53 or Rb gene, irreversibly preventing cell mitosis. If the cells at this time are transfected by the virus (such as SV40, HPV, etc.) or underwent p53 gene mutation or Rb gene inactivation, instead, the cells continue to divide and telomere length is further shortened until the DNA is damaged and causes a cell death response. Most of the cells die, with very few cells escaping death by activating telomerase, meaning that a small part of the cells gets "immortalized" into an infinitely proliferating cell. This is also a popular topic in the anti-aging field. [59]

Blackbum discovered that the telomeres have two states, capped and uncapped states. [60] Capped telomeres protect the integrity of the telomeres and maintain normal cell division. Telomeres can be randomly transferred between uncapped to capped. Telomeres with long sequence are easy to be capped; short telomeres are difficult to be capped. It is possible to "immortalize" the cells by activating the telomerase uncapped state. Therefore, Blackbum believed that the length of telomeres plays an important role in determining cell aging.

Aging is also related to the telomerase activity. Dr. Geserick has found that, in mice, telomerase overexpression or low expression leads to premature aging. [61] Dr. Bernardes and Dr. Jaskelioff found that either in pre-old model mice or in normal mice, telomerase activation plays a significant role in anti-aging. [62, 63] These results suggest that the reactivation of telomerase in adult or aged mice can significantly delay aging in mice.

Aging and Telomere Length

In humans, telomere length gradually shortens as the human body ages. The research on genetically engineered deficiencies in telomerase and other telomere-maintenance proteins have confirmed that short telomeres curtail the lifespan of mice. [64-66] This result suggests that an individual's lifespan has a positive correlation with telomere length; comparatively short telomere length is considered biologically older than its peers. On the other hand, the data from the GERA (over 100,000 individuals) cohort also showed that telomere length was positively correlated with lifespan in subjects over 75 years of age. [67] The research on premature aging disease, Werner syndrome (WS) patients, found that telomere length correlated with senescence, shorter telomere length correlated to more severe senescence. [68]

In humans, the rate of telomere length shortening is considerably faster during early stages of growth and development than throughout adulthood. [69, 70] The telomere length of some special cells in the cerebral cortex, neurons, and cardiomyocytes do not change with age. Telomere length of these poorly proliferative tissues remained relatively stable throughout their life cycle. [71]

The rate of telomere shortening differs among species too. Telomere length in human blood cells is shortened by an average of 31-72 base pairs per year, whereas the blood cells of mice are shortened by 100 times faster. [72, 73] This may explain, in part, the difference in life span between the humans and mice. Even different human races show different telomere length. Africans have an average 400 base pairs longer leucocyte telomeres than African Americans, which in turn, is longer by about 200 base pairs than that of individuals of European ancestry. [74]

Therefore, in different species, different race, or even in different tissue of the same individual, the mechanism of telomere shortening may not be same throughout aging process.

Non-genetic Influences on Human Telomere Length

Telomere shortening is associated with aging, mortality, and aging-related diseases. The telomere length is controlled by not only the end replication problem and telomerase compensation but also by a variety of factors. Many detrimental traits and potentially harmful environmental factors are associated with short telomeres in humans.

Telomeres are highly susceptible to oxidative stress. Oxidative stress-mediated DNA damage is an important determinant of telomere shortening. [75] Oxidative stress most likely acts on thymine and guanine. Free radicals, O-2 ♂ (oxygen ions) and H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide), may induce DNA damage, which in turn results in the loss of telomere single-stranded fragments and shortening telomere length. The rate of telomere shortening due to free radicals (100bp) is much faster than what is caused by the end-replication problem (20bp). Antioxidant treatment can reduce telomere damage and alleviate aging. [76]

On the other hand, moderate increase in breast cancer risk among women with shorter telomeres and lower dietary intake of beta carotene, vitamin C or E is also reported in the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project. [77]

Shortened telomere length has been associated with elevated concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-6 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α). Dysregulation of inflammation with age is found in almost every living organism. Chronic inflammation is characterized by increased blood levels of several inflammatory biomarkers, including interferon- γ (IFN - γ), interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-18, and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α). [78] Shortened telomere length has been associated with elevated concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-6 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α). [79]

Other factors reported to be associated with telomere length range from social and environmental factors to lifestyle factors. Telomere length has been assessed in human cells in response to aerobic training, resistance training, and self-reported physical action. The result shows low exercise levels of activity associated with shorter telomeres; moderate levels of activity are more commonly associated with longer telomere length. [80, 81]

Lifestyles can also affect telomere length, such as smoking, alcoholism, and obesity. [82-84] An unhealthy diet (such as high cholesterol, high sugar, and high calorie) can accelerate telomere loss through oxidative stress or chronic inflammation. [85] Müezzinler's study found that telomere length and body mass index were negatively correlated and showed a dose-response relationship. [86]

More and more studies show how social stress-induced depression induces abnormal secretion of corticosteroids closely affecting the telomere length. Telomere length is shorter in patients with depression than in healthy individuals, with a biological age of up to about 10 years in patients with severe depression compared with healthy individuals. [87, 88]

The study on patients with low risk prostate cancer proved the effect of comprehensive lifestyle changes on telomerase activity and telomere length. The telomeres of the patients with positive improvements in lifestyle averaged 10% longer than the patients in the control group. [89] Balanced diet, moderate aerobic exercise, and a full range of pressure regulation contributed to the reduction of telomere shortening in patients with prostate cancer.

Anti-Aging Therapies with Telomerase

Telomerase adds telomeric repeats to the ends of chromosomes and is responsible for telomere length maintenance. The expression of telomerase is associated with cell immortalization. This concept has been promoted by the study on the mouse model of telomerase overexpression. In this model, the proportion of mice reaching old age was considerably increased, demonstrating an anti-aging activity of telomerase in a mammalian organism. [89] The fact that TERT-transgenic expression in a TERC-deficient background did not affect survival suggests that telomere maintenance is the main mechanism underlying the anti-aging phenomenon of TERT-transgenic mice. [90, 91] Introduction of human telomerase into normal cells induces telomere elongation and life span extension suggesting a pivotal role for telomerase in preventing cellular senescence. [92, 93] Small-molecule activator of telomerase (TA-65) treatment results in telomerase-dependent elongation of short telomeres and rescue of associated DNA damage in haploinsufficient mouse embryonic fibroblasts. [94]

It has been found that natural compounds, such as sex hormones, can bind to the telomerase reverse transcriptase gene promoter region and regulate telomerase reverse transcriptase activity at the transcriptional level. [95] In the mouse model of short-term telomerase-induced aplastic failure, androgen therapy avoided the aging of mice, suggesting that telomerase activation may be a treatment option for diseases associated with telomere deficiency. [96]

The ability of telomerase to maintain normal human cells in a phenotypically youthful state, treat disease associated with telomere deficiency, and extend life span could make it an important target in research and medicine, but overexpressing telomerase promotes cancer cells formation and growth. Failures to arrest growth in response to senescence or transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) are key derangements associated with carcinoma progression. Transgenic mice overexpressing telomerase in keratinocytes have an increased chance of carcinogen-induced epidermal tumors. [97]

Therefore, the application of telomerase needs to be further studied.

Conclusion

Senescence is an extremely complex process. Many different factors constitute a complicated source network, and a single prevention and treatment does not treat all situations. But it is becoming apparent that reversing telomeres length shortening by temporary activating telomerase may be a potent way to slow aging. Telomerase plays a double-edged sword role in aging and cancer. Telomerase overexpression in an aging body can protect the telomeres, prevent telomeres from further shortening, and thereby impair tissue degeneration resulting in an anti-aging effect. It can also lead to cell over-proliferation and the occurrence of tumors. Senescence of the cell and organs appears as an aging phenomenon, eventually causing irreversible damage and death. However, this has been well applied in the prevention and treatment of tumors.

Can the harmful effects of aging on the body be removed and its beneficial effects be saved for cancer therapy? In the coordination of tumor suppressor proteins, like p53, if the activation of telomerase is controlled in the effective range, the treatment targeting the telomere function and telomerase activity may effectively control tumors and prevent aging. [98] This can be a new way to treat age-related diseases and successfully control tumor genesis.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.

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Corresponding author: Yi Lu, Ph.D., Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Cancer Research Building, 19 South Manassas Street, Memphis, TN 38163 (USA), Tel.: (901) 448-5436, Fax.: (901) 448-5496, E-mail: yluedu

Received 2018-6-29
Accepted 2018-10-26
Published 2019-1-23

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