High resolution long-read telomere sequencing reveals dynamic mechanisms in aging and cancer
T. SchmidtCarly TyerPreeyesh RughaniCandy HaggblomJeffrey R. JonesXiaoguang DaiKelly A. FrazerFred H. GageSissel JuulScott HickeyJan Karlseder
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Abstract Telomeres are the protective nucleoprotein structures at the end of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. Telomeres’ repetitive nature and length have traditionally challenged the precise assessment of the composition and length of individual human telomeres. Here, we present Telo-seq to resolve bulk, chromosome arm-specific and allele-specific human telomere lengths using Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ native long-read sequencing. Telo-seq resolves telomere shortening in five population doubling increments and reveals intrasample, chromosome arm-specific, allele-specific telomere length heterogeneity. Telo-seq can reliably discriminate between telomerase- and ALT-positive cancer cell lines. Thus, Telo-seq is a tool to study telomere biology during development, aging, and cancer at unprecedented resolution.Telomere is specialized DNA-protein structures found at the end of eukaryotic chromosomes.Most of normal animal somatic cells can divide only a number of times and inevitably become senescent.Telomerase is an enzyme that imparts replicative immortality by maintaining the length of the telomere or synthesizing new telomere.This paper introduced the structure and function of telomerase,and also the application in immortalization.
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Telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes telomeres, is essential for most eukaryotes to maintain their generations. Telomere length homeostasis is achieved via a balance between telomere lengthening by telomerase, and erosion over successive cell divisions. Impaired telomerase regulation leads to shortened telomeres and can cause defects in tissue maintenance. Telomeric DNA is composed of a repetitive sequence, which recruits the protective protein complex, shelterin. Shelterin, together with chromatin remodelling proteins, shapes the heterochromatic structure at the telomere and protects chromosome ends. Shelterin also provides a foothold for telomerase to be recruited and facilitates telomere extension. Such mechanisms of telomere recruitment and activation are conserved from unicellular eukaryotes to humans, with the rate of telomere extension playing an important role in determining the length maintained. Telomerase can be processive, adding multiple telomeric repeats before dissociating. However, a question remains: how does telomerase determine the number of repeats to add? In this review, I will discuss about how telomerase can monitor telomere extension using fission yeast as a model. I propose a model whereby the accumulation of the Pot1 complex on the synthesised telomere single-strand counteracts retention of telomerase via chromatin proteins and the similar system may be conserved in mammals.
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Now,the relationship between Telomere, Telomerase and the tumors is one of hot spots in the biomedical studies. Telomere is a kind of deoxyribonucleic acid that closes the end of eukaryotic chromosome. It is combined with protein and protect the chromosome,in addition,its length has great relationship with cell proliferation. Telomerase is a kind of special DNA transferase in the end of linear DNA, It solves the problem of duplicated chromosome shortness and we think the overexprossion of telomerase has close relationship with cell's immortalization and tumorigenesis.The structure and function of telomerase suggest its extensive application in the near future.Review summarizes the structures and functions of telomere and telomerase,and their important functions in tumors.
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Telomere length maintenance is essential for cellular immortalization, and thus tumorigenesis. Most human tumors and immortal cell lines maintain their telomeric DNA via the activity of a specialized reverse transcriptase, telomerase. Stabilization of telomeric repeat tracts may also be achieved through a telomerase-independent mechanism, referred to as alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT). ALT cells are telomerase negative and are characterized by extremely long and heterogeneously sized telomeres and novel multiprotein structures called ALT-associated PML nuclear bodies which are unique to ALT cells. To determine if reconstitution of telomerase activity suppressed ALT and restored wild-type telomere lengths, we introduced the catalytic subunit of telomerase into two ALT cell lines. Initially, two clonal lines exhibited enrichment of shorter telomeres while maintaining a population of ultra-long telomeres similar to that observed in the parental line, suggesting that telomerase is stabilizing the shorter telomeres in the population. Telomere length in the third clonal line was not detectably different from that in the parental cell line. One clonal line with a phenotype of shorter telomeres maintained this pattern over time in culture while the second gradually reverted to the parental ALT telomere length pattern, concurrent with reduction of telomerase activity. All clones continued to maintain ALT-associated PML nuclear bodies regardless of whether telomerase was present. The data suggest that introduction of telomerase activity alone is not sufficient to completely repress ALT, that telomerase acts preferentially on the shortest telomeres in the culture and that the ALT and telomerase pathways may be present concurrently in mammalian cells.
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The ribonucleoprotein (RNP) enzyme telomerase synthesizes telomere DNA and maintains telomere length in eukaryotic cells. This review describes recent findings that provide new understanding, of the functions of telomeres and telomerase. Telomerase has an essential RNA moiety in which a short sequence acts as the template for synthesis of telomeric DNA. Recent results show that, besides acting as a template, the telomerase RNA plays essential roles in the enzymatic functions of telomerase that are as critical as those provided by the protein reverse transcriptase subunit of telomerase. Analysis of telomerase RNA mutants in yeast has provided evidence that telomerase is an oligomeric/dimeric enzyme containing at least two telomerase RNA molecules and two enzyme-active sites. Recent data suggest that this telomerase RNP also plays a critical role in capping short telomeres. Thus, the length of a telomere is only one determinant of whether it is sufficiently long to function as a cap, stabilizing the chromosome end. Several lines of evidence converge on the notion that for telomere length regulation and other telomere functions, the very few last repeats at the tip of the telomere are the most crucial.
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