Publication Date:
2013-10-12
Description:
Regulator of telomere length 1 (RTEL1) is an essential DNA helicase that disassembles telomere loops (T loops) and suppresses telomere fragility to maintain the integrity of chromosome ends. We established that RTEL1 also associates with the replisome through binding to proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). Mouse cells disrupted for the RTEL1-PCNA interaction (PIP mutant) exhibited accelerated senescence, replication fork instability, reduced replication fork extension rates, and increased origin usage. Although T-loop disassembly at telomeres was unaffected in the mutant cells, telomere replication was compromised, leading to fragile sites at telomeres. RTEL1-PIP mutant mice were viable, but loss of the RTEL1-PCNA interaction accelerated the onset of tumorigenesis in p53-deficient mice. We propose that RTEL1 plays a critical role in both telomere and genome-wide replication, which is crucial for genetic stability and tumor avoidance.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vannier, Jean-Baptiste -- Sandhu, Sumit -- Petalcorin, Mark I R -- Wu, Xiaoli -- Nabi, Zinnatun -- Ding, Hao -- Boulton, Simon J -- Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada -- Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Oct 11;342(6155):239-42. doi: 10.1126/science.1241779.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉DNA Damage Response Laboratory, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, Clare Hall, South Mimms, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24115439" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cell Line
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Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/genetics/*metabolism
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DNA Helicases/genetics/*metabolism
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*DNA Replication
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Genome/*genetics
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Mice
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Mice, Mutant Strains
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Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen/*metabolism
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Telomere/*genetics
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Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/genetics
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
