Publication Date:
2009-01-31
Description:
Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex that synthesizes telomere repeats in tissue progenitor cells and cancer cells. Active human telomerase consists of at least three principal subunits, including the telomerase reverse transcriptase, the telomerase RNA (TERC), and dyskerin. Here, we identify a holoenzyme subunit, TCAB1 (telomerase Cajal body protein 1), that is notably enriched in Cajal bodies, nuclear sites of RNP processing that are important for telomerase function. TCAB1 associates with active telomerase enzyme, established telomerase components, and small Cajal body RNAs that are involved in modifying splicing RNAs. Depletion of TCAB1 by using RNA interference prevents TERC from associating with Cajal bodies, disrupts telomerase-telomere association, and abrogates telomere synthesis by telomerase. Thus, TCAB1 controls telomerase trafficking and is required for telomere synthesis in human cancer cells.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2728071/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2728071/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Venteicher, Andrew S -- Abreu, Eladio B -- Meng, Zhaojing -- McCann, Kelly E -- Terns, Rebecca M -- Veenstra, Timothy D -- Terns, Michael P -- Artandi, Steven E -- CA104676/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA111691/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA125453/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM07365/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- N01-CO-12400/CO/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA111691/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA111691-04/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA125453/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA125453-03/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Jan 30;323(5914):644-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1165357.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19179534" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism
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Cell Line, Tumor
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Coiled Bodies/*metabolism
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HeLa Cells
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Humans
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Immunoprecipitation
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Nuclear Proteins/metabolism
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RNA/metabolism
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RNA Interference
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Telomerase/chemistry/*metabolism
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Telomere/*metabolism
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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