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Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ., 10 October 2001
Vol. 2001, Issue 2, p. or19

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Strand-Specific Postreplicative Processing of Mammalian Telomeres

P S. M. Bailey, M. N. Cornforth, A. Kurimasa, D. J. Chen, and E. H. Goodwin

http://sageke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sageke;2001/2/or19

Abstract: Science 293, 2462-2465 (2001).

Telomeres are specialized nucleoprotein structures that stabilize the ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. In mammalian cells, abrogation of telomeric repeat binding factor TRF2 or DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) activity causes end-to-end chromosomal fusion, thus establishing an essential role for these proteins in telomere function. Here we show that TRF2-mediated end-capping occurs after telomere replication. The postreplicative requirement for TRF2 and DNA-PKcs, the catalytic subunit of DNA-PK, is confined to only half of the telomeres, namely, those that were produced by leading-strand DNA synthesis. These results demonstrate a crucial difference in postreplicative processing of telomeres that is linked to their mode of replication.

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