Publication Date:
2001-09-29
Description:
Telomeres are specialized nucleoprotein structures that stabilize the ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. In mammalian cells, abrogation of telomeric repeat binding factor TRF2 or DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) activity causes end-to-end chromosomal fusion, thus establishing an essential role for these proteins in telomere function. Here we show that TRF2-mediated end-capping occurs after telomere replication. The postreplicative requirement for TRF2 and DNA-PKcs, the catalytic subunit of DNA-PK, is confined to only half of the telomeres, namely, those that were produced by leading-strand DNA synthesis. These results demonstrate a crucial difference in postreplicative processing of telomeres that is linked to their mode of replication.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bailey, S M -- Cornforth, M N -- Kurimasa, A -- Chen, D J -- Goodwin, E H -- AG-917709/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- CA50519/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA76260/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Sep 28;293(5539):2462-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11577237" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cell Division
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Cell Line
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Chromatids/physiology/ultrastructure
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Chromosomes/physiology/ultrastructure
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*DNA Replication
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DNA-Activated Protein Kinase
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DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
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Humans
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In Situ Hybridization
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Mice
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Mitosis
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Mutation
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Nuclear Proteins
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Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/deficiency/metabolism
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Telomere/*metabolism
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Telomeric Repeat Binding Protein 2
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Tumor Cells, Cultured
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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