Mitochondrial localization of telomerase as a determinant for hydrogen peroxide-induced mitochondrial DNA damage and apoptosis

Human Molecular Genetics
Janine Hertzog SantosBennett Van Houten

Abstract

We have previously shown that the protein subunit of telomerase, hTERT, has a bonafide N-terminal mitochondrial targeting sequence, and that ectopic hTERT expression in human cells correlated with increase in mtDNA damage after hydrogen peroxide treatment. In this study, we show, using a loxP hTERT construct, that this increase in mtDNA damage following hydrogen peroxide exposure is dependent on the presence of hTERT itself. Further experiments using a dominant negative hTERT mutant shows that telomerase must be catalytically active to mediate the increase in mtDNA damage. Etoposide, but not methylmethanesulfate, also promotes mtDNA lesions in cells expressing active hTERT, indicating genotoxic specificity in this response. Fibroblasts expressing hTERT not only show a approximately 2-fold increase in mtDNA damage after oxidative stress but also suffer a 10-30-fold increase in apoptotic cell death as assayed by Annexin-V staining, caspase-3 activation and PARP cleavage. Mutations to the N-terminal mitochondrial leader sequence causes a complete loss of mitochondrial targeting without affecting catalytic activity. Cells carrying this mutated hTERT not only have significantly reduced levels of mtDNA damage following hydrogen perox...Continue Reading

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