Abstract
Prolonged growth of murine embryonic stem (ES) cells lacking the telomerase reverse transcriptase, mTert, results in a loss of telomere DNA and an increased incidence of end-to-end fusions and aneuploidy. Furthermore, loss of only one copy of mTert also results in telomere shortening intermediate between wild-type (wt) and mTert-null ES cells [Liu, Y., Snow, B. E., Hande, M. P., Yeung, D., Erdmann, N. J., Wakeham, A., Itie, A., Siderovski, D. P., Lansdorp, P. M., Robinson, M. O. & Harrington, L. (2000) Curr. Biol. 10, 1459-1462]. Unexpectedly, although average telomere length in mTert(+/-) ES cells declined to a similar level as mTert-null ES cells, mTert(+/-) ES cell lines retained a minimal telomeric DNA signal at all chromosome ends. Consequently, no end-to-end fusions and genome instability were observed in the latest passages of mTert(+/-) ES cell lines. These data uncover a functional distinction between the dosage-dependent function of telomerase in average telomere-length maintenance and the selective maintenance of critically short telomeres in cells heterozygous for mTert. In normal and tumor cells, we suggest that telomerase activity insufficient to maintain a given average telomere length may, nonetheless, provide a...Continue Reading
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