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:Telomere maintenance is essential for the unlimited proliferative potential of human cells, and hence immortalization. However, a number of tumors, tumor-derived cell lines and in vitro immortalized cell lines have been described that do not express detectable telomerase activity. These lines utilize a mechanism, termed Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT), to provide telomere maintenance. A subset of the cells in each ALT cell line contain a novel form of the promyelocytic leukemia nuclear body (PML NB) in which telomeric DNA and the telomere binding proteins TRF1 and TRF2 co-localize with the PML protein, termed ALT-associated PML bodies (AA-PBs). In contrast, in non-ALT, telomerase-positive cell lines these telomeric proteins and the PML NB occupy distinct and separate subnuclear domains. PML NBs have been implicated in terminal differentiation, growth suppression and apoptosis. The role, if any, of AA-PBs in telomere maintenance or culture viability in telomerase negative cell lines is unclear, but it has been suggested that cells containing these structures are no longer viable and are marked for eventual death. We utilized a series of human ovarian surface epithelium (HOSE) cell lines that use ALT for telomere maintenance to determine if AA-PBs are indeed markers of cells in these cultures that are no longer cycling. We show that AA-PB positive cells incorporate BrdU and thus are able to carry out DNA replication. In addition, AA-PBs are present in mitotic cells and the frequency of cells containing these structures is increased when cultures are enriched for cells in the G(2)/M phase of the cell cycle suggesting that the formation of AA-PBs is coordinately regulated with the cell cycle. Finally, we demonstrate that the majority of the AA-PB positive cells in the culture are not destined for immediate apoptosis. Taken together the data argue against AA-PBs marking cells destined for death and, instead, raise the possibility that these structures may be actively involved in telomere maintenance via the ALT pathway.
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J Cell Scijournal_title
Journal of cell scienceauthors
Grobelny JV,Godwin AK,Broccoli Dkeywords:
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2000-12-01 00:00:00pages
4577-85eissn
0021-9533issn
1477-9137journal_volume
113 Pt 24pub_type
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