Takada T, Hayashi T, Arakawa M, Kominami R
First Department of Biochemistry, Niigata University School of Medicine.
Jpn J Cancer Res. 1992 Nov;83(11):1124-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1992.tb02733.x.
Changes in the number of telomere repeat arrays have been examined during metastasis of two mouse tumor cell lines. Telomeres were detected as bands and a smear by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and gel-hybridization using (TTAGGG)4 as a probe. Very long size variants of telomeres were frequently observed in metastatic nodules. This suggests that at least some of the tumor cells have an ability to elongate telomeres. This elongation may compensate for the continuous loss of telomere repeats due to cell divisions, which would eventually lead to cell death.
在两种小鼠肿瘤细胞系转移过程中,对端粒重复序列阵列的数量变化进行了研究。通过脉冲场凝胶电泳和使用(TTAGGG)4作为探针的凝胶杂交,将端粒检测为条带和涂片。在转移瘤结节中经常观察到端粒的非常长的大小变异体。这表明至少一些肿瘤细胞具有延长端粒的能力。这种延长可能补偿由于细胞分裂导致的端粒重复序列的持续丢失,而这最终会导致细胞死亡。