Abstract:
:In the absence of telomerase, telomeres erode, provoking accumulation of DNA damage and death by senescence. Rare survivors arise, however, due to Rad52-based amplification of telomeric sequences by homologous recombination. The present study reveals that in budding yeast cells, postsenescence survival relying on amplification of the TG(1-3) telomeric repeats can take place in the absence of Rad52 when overelongated telomeres are present during senescence (hence its designation ILT, for inherited-long-telomere, pathway). By growth competition, the Rad52-independent pathway was almost as efficient as the Rad51- and Rad52-dependent pathway that predominates in telomerase-negative cells. The ILT pathway could also be triggered by increased telomerase accessibility before telomerase removal, combined with loss of telomere protection, indicating that prior accumulation of recombination proteins was not required. The ILT pathway was dependent on Rad50 and Mre11 but not on the Rad51 recombinase and Rad59, thus making it distinct from both the type II (budding yeast ALT [alternative lengthening of telomeres]) and type I pathways amplifying the TG(1-3) repeats and subtelomeric sequences, respectively. The ILT pathway also required the Rad1 endonuclease and Elg1, a replication factor C (RFC)-like complex subunit, but not Rad24 or Ctf18 (two subunits of two other RFC-like complexes), the Dnl4 ligase, Yku70, or Nej1. Possible mechanisms for this Rad52-independent pathway of telomeric repeat amplification are discussed. The effects of inherited long telomeres on Rad52-dependent recombination are also reported.
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Mol Cell Bioljournal_title
Molecular and cellular biologyauthors
Grandin N,Charbonneau Mdoi
10.1128/MCB.00817-08subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-02-01 00:00:00pages
965-85issue
4eissn
0270-7306issn
1098-5549pii
MCB.00817-08journal_volume
29pub_type
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