Medaka tert produces multiple variants with differential expression during differentiation in vitro and in vivo.

Abstract:

:Embryonic stem (ES) cells have immortality for self-renewal and pluripotency. Differentiated human cells undergo replicative senescence. In human, the telomerase reverse transcriptase (Tert), namely the catalytic subunit of telomerase, exhibits differential expression to regulate telomerase activity governing cellular immortality or senescence, and telomerase activity or tert expression is a routine marker of pluripotent ES cells. Here we have identified the medaka tert gene and determined its expression and telomerase activity in vivo and in vitro. We found that the medaka tert locus produces five variants called terta to terte encoding isoforms TertA to TertE. The longest TertA consists of 1090 amino acid residues and displays a maximum of 34% identity to the human TERT and all the signature motifs of the Tert family. TertB to TertE are novel isoforms and have considerable truncation due to alternative splicing. The terta RNA is ubiquitous in embryos, adult tissues and cell lines, and accompanies ubiquitous telomerase activity in vivo and in vitro as revealed by TRAP assays. The tertb RNA was restricted to the testis, absent in embryos before gastrulation and barely detectable in various cell lines The tertc transcript was absent in undifferentiated ES cells but became evident upon ES cell differentiation, in vivo it was barely detectable in early embryos and became evident when embryogenesis proceeds. Therefore, ubiquitous terta expression correlates with ubiquitous telomerase activity in medaka, and expression of other tert variants appears to delineate cell differentiation in vitro and in vivo.

journal_name

Int J Biol Sci

authors

Rao F,Wang T,Li M,Li Z,Hong N,Zhao H,Yan Y,Lu W,Chen T,Wang W,Lim M,Yuan Y,Liu L,Zeng L,Wei Q,Guan G,Li C,Hong Y

doi

10.7150/ijbs.7.426

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-04-15 00:00:00

pages

426-39

issue

4

issn

1449-2288

journal_volume

7

pub_type

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