Grudic Amra, Jul-Larsen Asne, Haring Stuart J, Wold Marc S, Lønning Per Eystein, Bjerkvig Rolf, Bøe Stig Ove
Section of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2007;35(21):7267-78. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkm738. Epub 2007 Oct 24.
The activation of a telomere maintenance mechanism is required for cancer development in humans. While most tumors achieve this by expressing the enzyme telomerase, a fraction (5-15%) employs a recombination-based mechanism termed alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT). Here we show that loss of the single-stranded DNA-binding protein replication protein A (RPA) in human ALT cells, but not in telomerase-positive cells, causes increased exposure of single-stranded G-rich telomeric DNA, cell cycle arrest in G2/M phase, accumulation of single-stranded telomeric DNA within ALT-associated PML bodies (APBs), and formation of telomeric aggregates at the ends of metaphase chromosomes. This study demonstrates differences between ALT cells and telomerase-positive cells in the requirement for RPA in telomere processing and implicates the ALT mechanism in tumor cells as a possible therapeutic target.
端粒维持机制的激活是人类癌症发展所必需的。虽然大多数肿瘤通过表达端粒酶来实现这一点,但一小部分(5-15%)采用一种基于重组的机制,称为端粒替代延长(ALT)。在这里,我们表明,人ALT细胞中而非端粒酶阳性细胞中单链DNA结合蛋白复制蛋白A(RPA)的缺失,会导致富含G的单链端粒DNA暴露增加、细胞周期在G2/M期停滞、ALT相关的PML小体(APB)内单链端粒DNA积累以及中期染色体末端形成端粒聚集体。这项研究证明了ALT细胞和端粒酶阳性细胞在端粒加工中对RPA需求的差异,并表明肿瘤细胞中的ALT机制可能是一个治疗靶点。
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