Marcand Stéphane
CEA; DSV/IRCM/SIGRR/LTR; Fontenay-aux-roses; France; INSERM UMR 967; Fontenay-aux-roses; France.
Mol Cell Oncol. 2014 Oct 29;1(3):e963438. doi: 10.4161/23723548.2014.963438. eCollection 2014 Jul-Sep.
The telomeres of eukaryotes are stable open double-strand ends that coexist with nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ), the repair pathway that directly ligates DNA ends generated by double-strand breaks. Since a single end-joining event between 2 telomeres generates a circular chromosome or an unstable dicentric chromosome, NHEJ must be prevented from acting on telomeres. Multiple mechanisms mediated by telomere factors act in synergy to achieve this inhibition.
真核生物的端粒是稳定的开放双链末端,与非同源末端连接(NHEJ)共存,NHEJ是一种直接连接双链断裂产生的DNA末端的修复途径。由于两个端粒之间的单个末端连接事件会产生环状染色体或不稳定的双着丝粒染色体,因此必须防止NHEJ作用于端粒。由端粒因子介导的多种机制协同作用以实现这种抑制。