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Telomeres and chromosome instability.

Abstract：

:Genomic instability has been proposed to play an important role in cancer by accelerating the accumulation of genetic changes responsible for cancer cell evolution. One mechanism for chromosome instability is through the loss of telomeres, which are DNA-protein complexes that protect the ends of chromosomes and prevent chromosome fusion. Telomere loss can occur as a result of exogenous DNA damage, or spontaneously in cancer cells that commonly have a high rate of telomere loss. Mouse embryonic stem cells and human tumor cell lines that contain a selectable marker gene located immediately adjacent to a telomere have been used to investigate the consequences of telomere loss. In both cell types, telomere loss is followed by either the addition of a new telomere on to the end of the broken chromosome, or sister chromatid fusion and prolonged breakage/fusion/bridge (B/F/B) cycles that result in DNA amplification and large terminal deletions. The regions amplified by B/F/B cycles can then be transferred to other chromosomes, either through the formation of double-minute chromosomes that reintegrate at other sites, or through end-to-end fusions between chromosomes. B/F/B cycles eventually end when a chromosome acquires a new telomere by one of several mechanisms, the most common of which is translocation, which can involve either nonreciprocal transfer or duplication of all or part of an arm of another chromosome. Telomere acquisition involving nonreciprocal translocations results in the loss of a telomere on the donor chromosome, which subsequently becomes unstable. In contrast, translocations involving duplications do not destabilize the donor chromosome, although they result in allelic imbalances. Thus, the loss of a single telomere can generate a wide variety of chromosome alterations commonly associated with human cancer, not only on the chromosome that originally lost its telomere, but other chromosomes as well. Factors promoting spontaneous telomere loss and the resulting B/F/B cycles are therefore likely to be important in generating the karyotypic changes associated with human cancer.

journal_name

DNA Repair (Amst)

journal_title

DNA repair

authors

Murnane JP

doi

10.1016/j.dnarep.2006.05.030

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-09-08 00:00:00

pages

1082-92

issue

9-10

eissn

1568-7864

issn

1568-7856

pii

S1568-7864(06)00170-4

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Telomeres and chromosome instability.