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Zeinoun B, Teixeira MT, Barascu A. Hog1 acts in a Mec1-independent manner to counteract oxidative stress following telomerase inactivation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Commun Biol 2024; 7:761. [PMID: 38909140 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06464-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 06/18/2024] [Indexed: 06/24/2024] Open
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Replicative senescence is triggered when telomeres reach critically short length and activate permanent DNA damage checkpoint-dependent cell cycle arrest. Mitochondrial dysfunction and increase in oxidative stress are both features of replicative senescence in mammalian cells. However, how reactive oxygen species levels are controlled during senescence is elusive. Here, we show that reactive oxygen species levels increase in the telomerase-negative cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae during replicative senescence, and that this coincides with the activation of Hog1, a mammalian p38 MAPK ortholog. Hog1 counteracts increased ROS levels during replicative senescence. While Hog1 deletion accelerates replicative senescence, we found this could stem from a reduced cell viability prior to telomerase inactivation. ROS levels also increase upon telomerase inactivation when Mec1, the yeast ortholog of ATR, is mutated, suggesting that oxidative stress is not simply a consequence of DNA damage checkpoint activation in budding yeast. We speculate that oxidative stress is a conserved hallmark of telomerase-negative eukaryote cells, and that its sources and consequences can be dissected in S. cerevisiae.
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- Bechara Zeinoun
- Sorbonne Université, PSL, CNRS, UMR8226, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire des Eucaryotes, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, PSL, CNRS, UMR8226, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire des Eucaryotes, F-75005, Paris, France.
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- Sorbonne Université, PSL, CNRS, UMR8226, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire des Eucaryotes, F-75005, Paris, France.
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Vicari MR, Bruschi DP, Cabral-de-Mello DC, Nogaroto V. Telomere organization and the interstitial telomeric sites involvement in insects and vertebrates chromosome evolution. Genet Mol Biol 2022; 45:e20220071. [DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2022-0071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Sholes SL, Karimian K, Gershman A, Kelly TJ, Timp W, Greider CW. Chromosome-specific telomere lengths and the minimal functional telomere revealed by nanopore sequencing. Genome Res 2021; 32:616-628. [PMID: 34702734 PMCID: PMC8997346 DOI: 10.1101/gr.275868.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We developed a method to tag telomeres and measure telomere length by nanopore sequencing in the yeast S. cerevisiae. Nanopore allows long-read sequencing through the telomere, through the subtelomere, and into unique chromosomal sequence, enabling assignment of telomere length to a specific chromosome end. We observed chromosome end–specific telomere lengths that were stable over 120 cell divisions. These stable chromosome-specific telomere lengths may be explained by slow clonal variation or may represent a new biological mechanism that maintains equilibrium unique to each chromosome end. We examined the role of RIF1 and TEL1 in telomere length regulation and found that TEL1 is epistatic to RIF1 at most telomeres, consistent with the literature. However, at telomeres that lack subtelomeric Y′ sequences, tel1Δ rif1Δ double mutants had a very small, but significant, increase in telomere length compared with the tel1Δ single mutant, suggesting an influence of Y′ elements on telomere length regulation. We sequenced telomeres in a telomerase-null mutant (est2Δ) and found the minimal telomere length to be ∼75 bp. In these est2Δ mutants, there were apparent telomere recombination events at individual telomeres before the generation of survivors, and these events were significantly reduced in est2Δ rad52Δ double mutants. The rate of telomere shortening in the absence of telomerase was similar across all chromosome ends at ∼5 bp per generation. This new method gives quantitative, high-resolution telomere length measurement at each individual chromosome end and suggests possible new biological mechanisms regulating telomere length.
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Aksenova AY, Mirkin SM. At the Beginning of the End and in the Middle of the Beginning: Structure and Maintenance of Telomeric DNA Repeats and Interstitial Telomeric Sequences. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:genes10020118. [PMID: 30764567 PMCID: PMC6410037 DOI: 10.3390/genes10020118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2019] [Revised: 01/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/30/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Tandem DNA repeats derived from the ancestral (TTAGGG)n run were first detected at chromosome ends of the majority of living organisms, hence the name telomeric DNA repeats. Subsequently, it has become clear that telomeric motifs are also present within chromosomes, and they were suitably called interstitial telomeric sequences (ITSs). It is well known that telomeric DNA repeats play a key role in chromosome stability, preventing end-to-end fusions and precluding the recurrent DNA loss during replication. Recent data suggest that ITSs are also important genomic elements as they confer its karyotype plasticity. In fact, ITSs appeared to be among the most unstable microsatellite sequences as they are highly length polymorphic and can trigger chromosomal fragility and gross chromosomal rearrangements. Importantly, mechanisms responsible for their instability appear to be similar to the mechanisms that maintain the length of genuine telomeres. This review compares the mechanisms of maintenance and dynamic properties of telomeric repeats and ITSs and discusses the implications of these dynamics on genome stability.
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- Anna Y Aksenova
- Laboratory of Amyloid Biology, St. Petersburg State University, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia.
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- Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02421, USA.
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Zubko EI, Shackleton JL, Zubko MK. ATLAS: An advanced PCR-method for routine visualization of telomere length in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Int J Biol Macromol 2016; 93:1285-1294. [PMID: 27645931 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2016.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2016] [Revised: 07/20/2016] [Accepted: 09/01/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Measuring telomere length is essential in telomere biology. Southern blot hybridization is the predominant method for measuring telomere length in the genetic model Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We have further developed and refined a telomere PCR approach, which was rarely used previously (mainly in specific telomeric projects), into a robust method allowing direct visualisation of telomere length differences in routine experiments with S. cerevisiae, and showing a strong correlation of results with data obtained by Southern blot hybridization. In this expanded method denoted as ATLAS (A-dvanced T-elomere L-ength A-nalysis in S. cerevisiae), we have introduced: 1) set of new primers annealing with high specificity to telomeric regions on five different chromosomes; 2) new approach for designing reverse telomere primers that is based on the ligation of an adaptor of a fixed size to telomeric ends. ATLAS can be used at the scale of individual assays and high-throughput approaches. This simple, time/cost-effective and reproducible methodology will complement Southern blot hybridization and facilitate further progress in telomere research.
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- Elena I Zubko
- School of Healthcare Science, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester St., Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom
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- School of Healthcare Science, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester St., Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom
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- School of Healthcare Science, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester St., Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom.
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Saint-Léger A, Koelblen M, Civitelli L, Bah A, Djerbi N, Giraud-Panis MJ, Londoño-Vallejo A, Ascenzioni F, Gilson E. The basic N-terminal domain of TRF2 limits recombination endonuclease action at human telomeres. Cell Cycle 2015; 13:2469-74. [PMID: 25483196 DOI: 10.4161/cc.29422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The stability of mammalian telomeres depends upon TRF2, which prevents inappropriate repair and checkpoint activation. By using a plasmid integration assay in yeasts carrying humanized telomeres, we demonstrated that TRF2 possesses the intrinsic property to both stimulate initial homologous recombination events and to prevent their resolution via its basic N-terminal domain. In human cells, we further showed that this TRF2 domain prevents telomere shortening mediated by the resolvase-associated protein SLX4 as well as GEN1 and MUS81, 2 different types of endonucleases with resolvase activities. We propose that various types of resolvase activities are kept in check by the basic N-terminal domain of TRF2 in order to favor an accurate repair of the stalled forks that occur during telomere replication.
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- Adélaïde Saint-Léger
- a Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN); CNRS UMR7284/INSERM U1081; Faculty of Medicine; Nice, France
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Kwapisz M, Ruault M, van Dijk E, Gourvennec S, Descrimes M, Taddei A, Morillon A. Expression of Subtelomeric lncRNAs Links Telomeres Dynamics to RNA Decay in S. cerevisiae. Noncoding RNA 2015; 1:94-126. [PMID: 29861418 PMCID: PMC5932542 DOI: 10.3390/ncrna1020094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2015] [Revised: 06/17/2015] [Accepted: 06/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to regulate gene expression, chromatin domains and chromosome stability in eukaryotic cells. Recent observations have reported the existence of telomeric repeats containing long ncRNAs – TERRA in mammalian and yeast cells. However, their functions remain poorly characterized. Here, we report the existence in S. cerevisiae of several lncRNAs within Y′ subtelomeric regions. We have called them subTERRA. These belong to Cryptic Unstable Transcripts (CUTs) and Xrn1p-sensitive Unstable Transcripts (XUTs) family. subTERRA transcription, carried out mainly by RNAPII, is initiated within the subtelomeric Y’ element and occurs in both directions, towards telomeres as well as centromeres. We show that subTERRA are distinct from TERRA and are mainly degraded by the general cytoplasmic and nuclear 5′- and 3′- RNA decay pathways in a transcription-dependent manner. subTERRA accumulates preferentially during the G1/S transition and in C-terminal rap1 mutant but independently of Rap1p function in silencing. The accumulation of subTERRA in RNA decay mutants coincides with telomere misregulation: shortening of telomeres, loss of telomeric clustering in mitotic cells and changes in silencing of subtelomeric regions. Our data suggest that subtelomeric RNAs expression links telomere maintenance to RNA degradation pathways.
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- Marta Kwapisz
- ncRNA, epigenetics and genome fluidity, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR3244, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d’Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France; E-Mail: (M.D.)
- Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mails: (M.K.); (A.M.); Tel.: +33-561-335-824 (M.K.); +33-(0)-156-246-515 (A.M.); Fax: +33-524-335-886 (M.K.); +33-(0)-156-246-674 (A.M.)
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- Nuclear Dynamics, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR3664, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d’Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France; E-Mails: (M.R.); (A.T.)
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- ncRNA, epigenetics and genome fluidity, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR3244, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d’Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France; E-Mail: (M.D.)
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- ncRNA, epigenetics and genome fluidity, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR3244, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d’Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France; E-Mail: (M.D.)
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- ncRNA, epigenetics and genome fluidity, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR3244, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d’Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France; E-Mail: (M.D.)
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- Nuclear Dynamics, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR3664, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d’Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France; E-Mails: (M.R.); (A.T.)
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- ncRNA, epigenetics and genome fluidity, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR3244, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d’Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France; E-Mail: (M.D.)
- Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mails: (M.K.); (A.M.); Tel.: +33-561-335-824 (M.K.); +33-(0)-156-246-515 (A.M.); Fax: +33-524-335-886 (M.K.); +33-(0)-156-246-674 (A.M.)
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Lormand JD, Buncher N, Murphy CT, Kaur P, Lee MY, Burgers P, Wang H, Kunkel TA, Opresko PL. DNA polymerase δ stalls on telomeric lagging strand templates independently from G-quadruplex formation. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:10323-33. [PMID: 24038470 PMCID: PMC3905856 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Previous evidence indicates that telomeres resemble common fragile sites and present a challenge for DNA replication. The precise impediments to replication fork progression at telomeric TTAGGG repeats are unknown, but are proposed to include G-quadruplexes (G4) on the G-rich strand. Here we examined DNA synthesis and progression by the replicative DNA polymerase δ/proliferating cell nuclear antigen/replication factor C complex on telomeric templates that mimic the leading C-rich and lagging G-rich strands. Increased polymerase stalling occurred on the G-rich template, compared with the C-rich and nontelomeric templates. Suppression of G4 formation by substituting Li+ for K+ as the cation, or by using templates with 7-deaza-G residues, did not alleviate Pol δ pause sites within the G residues. Furthermore, we provide evidence that G4 folding is less stable on single-stranded circular TTAGGG templates where ends are constrained, compared with linear oligonucleotides. Artificially stabilizing G4 structures on the circular templates with the G4 ligand BRACO-19 inhibited Pol δ progression into the G-rich repeats. Similar results were obtained for yeast and human Pol δ complexes. Our data indicate that G4 formation is not required for polymerase stalling on telomeric lagging strands and suggest that an alternative mechanism, in addition to stable G4s, contributes to replication stalling at telomeres.
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- Justin D Lormand
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, 100 Technology Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, 2401 Stinson Drive, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA and Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Yu EY, Kojic M, Holloman WK, Lue NF. Brh2 and Rad51 promote telomere maintenance in Ustilago maydis, a new model system of DNA repair proteins at telomeres. DNA Repair (Amst) 2013; 12:472-9. [PMID: 23726221 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2013.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2013] [Revised: 04/19/2013] [Accepted: 04/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Recent studies implicate a number of DNA repair proteins in mammalian telomere maintenance. However, because several key repair proteins in mammals are missing from the well-studied budding and fission yeast, their roles at telomeres cannot be modeled in standard fungi. In this report, we explored the dimorphic fungus Ustilago maydis as an alternative model for telomere research. This fungus, which belongs to the phylum Basidiomycota, has a telomere repeat unit that is identical to the mammalian repeat, as well as a constellation of DNA repair proteins that more closely mimic the mammalian collection. We showed that the two core components of homology-directed repair (HDR) in U. maydis, namely Brh2 and Rad51, both promote telomere maintenance in telomerase positive cells, just like in mammals. In addition, we found that Brh2 is localized to telomeres in vivo, suggesting that it acts directly at chromosome ends. We surveyed a series of mutants with DNA repair defects, and found many of them to have short telomeres. Our results indicate that factors involved in DNA repair are probably also needed for optimal telomere maintenance in U. maydis, and that this fungus is a useful alternative model system for telomere research.
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- Eun Young Yu
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
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Di Domenico EG, Mattarocci S, Cimino-Reale G, Parisi P, Cifani N, D'Ambrosio E, Zakian VA, Ascenzioni F. Tel1 and Rad51 are involved in the maintenance of telomeres with capping deficiency. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:6490-500. [PMID: 23677619 PMCID: PMC3711455 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Vertebrate-like T2AG3 telomeres in tlc1-h yeast consist of short double-stranded regions and long single-stranded overhang (G-tails) and, although based on Tbf1-capping activity, they are capping deficient. Consistent with this idea, we observe Y' amplification because of homologous recombination, even in the presence of an active telomerase. In these cells, Y' amplification occurs by different pathways: in Tel1(+) tlc1h cells, it is Rad51-dependent, whereas in the absence of Tel1, it depends on Rad50. Generation of telomeric G-tail, which is cell cycle regulated, depends on the MRX (Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2) complex in tlc1h cells or is MRX-independent in tlc1h tel1Δ mutants. Unexpectedly, we observe telomere elongation in tlc1h lacking Rad51 that seems to act as a telomerase competitor for binding to telomeric G-tails. Overall, our results show that Tel1 and Rad51 have multiple roles in the maintenance of vertebrate-like telomeres in yeast, supporting the idea that they may participate to evolutionary conserved telomere protection mechanism/s acting at uncapped telomeres.
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- Enea Gino Di Domenico
- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie 'Charles Darwin', Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy.
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Giraud-Panis MJ, Pisano S, Benarroch-Popivker D, Pei B, Le Du MH, Gilson E. One identity or more for telomeres? Front Oncol 2013; 3:48. [PMID: 23509004 PMCID: PMC3598436 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2013.00048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2012] [Accepted: 02/23/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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A major issue in telomere research is to understand how the integrity of chromosome ends is controlled. The fact that different types of nucleoprotein complexes have been described at the telomeres of different organisms raises the question of whether they have in common a structural identity that explains their role in chromosome protection. We will review here how telomeric nucleoprotein complexes are structured, comparing different organisms and trying to link these structures to telomere biology. It emerges that telomeres are formed by a complex and specific network of interactions between DNA, RNA, and proteins. The fact that these interactions and associated activities are reinforcing each other might help to guarantee the robustness of telomeric functions across the cell cycle and in the event of cellular perturbations. We will also discuss the recent notion that telomeres have evolved specific systems to overcome the DNA topological stress generated during their replication and transcription. This will lead to revisit the way we envisage the functioning of telomeric complexes since the regulation of topology is central to DNA stability, replication, recombination, and transcription as well as to chromosome higher-order organization.
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- Marie-Josèphe Giraud-Panis
- Faculté de Médecine de Nice, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging Nice, UMR 7284 CNRS, U1081 INSERM Nice, France
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The mechanisms that maintain the stability of chromosome ends have broad impact on genome integrity in all eukaryotes. Budding yeast is a premier organism for telomere studies. Many fundamental concepts of telomere and telomerase function were first established in yeast and then extended to other organisms. We present a comprehensive review of yeast telomere biology that covers capping, replication, recombination, and transcription. We think of it as yeast telomeres—soup to nuts.
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Lamm N, Bsoul S, Kabaha MM, Tzfati Y. "Poisoning" yeast telomeres distinguishes between redundant telomere capping pathways. Chromosoma 2012; 121:613-27. [PMID: 23052336 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-012-0385-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2012] [Revised: 09/18/2012] [Accepted: 09/18/2012] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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In most eukaryotes, telomeres are composed of tandem arrays of species-specific DNA repeats ending with a G-rich 3' overhang. In budding yeast, Cdc13 binds this overhang and recruits Ten1-Stn1 and the telomerase protein Est1 to protect (cap) and elongate the telomeres, respectively. To dissect and study the various pathways employed to cap and maintain the telomere end, we engineered telomerase to incorporate Tetrahymena telomeric repeats (G₄T₂) onto the telomeres of the budding yeast Kluyveromyces lactis. These heterologous repeats caused telomere-telomere fusions, cell cycle arrest at G2/M, and severely reduced viability--the hallmarks of telomere uncapping. Fusing Cdc13 or Est1 to universal minicircle sequence binding protein (UMSBP), a small protein that binds the single-stranded G₄T₂ repeats, rescued the cell viability and restored telomere capping, but not telomerase-mediated telomere maintenance. Surprisingly, Cdc13-UMSBP-mediated telomere capping was dependent on the homologous recombination factor Rad52, while Est1-UMSBP was not. Thus, our results distinguish between two, redundant, telomere capping pathways.
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- Noa Lamm
- Department of Genetics, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
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Fukunaga K, Hirano Y, Sugimoto K. Subtelomere-binding protein Tbf1 and telomere-binding protein Rap1 collaborate to inhibit localization of the Mre11 complex to DNA ends in budding yeast. Mol Biol Cell 2011; 23:347-59. [PMID: 22130795 PMCID: PMC3258178 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e11-06-0568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Rap1 acts together with the subtelomere-binding protein Tbf1 and inhibits localization of Mre11 complex to DNA ends. Depletion of Tbf1 protein stimulates checkpoint activation in cells containing short telomeres. The results suggest that Tbf1 and Rap1 collaborate to maintain genomic stability of short telomeres. Chromosome ends, known as telomeres, have to be distinguished from DNA double-strand breaks that activate DNA damage checkpoints. In budding yeast, the Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 (MRX) complex associates with DNA ends and promotes checkpoint activation. Rap1 binds to double-stranded telomeric regions and recruits Rif1 and Rif2 to telomeres. Rap1 collaborates with Rif1 and Rif2 and inhibits MRX localization to DNA ends. This Rap1-Rif1-Rif2 function becomes attenuated at shortened telomeres. Here we show that Rap1 acts together with the subtelomere-binding protein Tbf1 and inhibits MRX localization to DNA ends. The placement of a subtelomeric sequence or TTAGGG repeats together with a short telomeric TG repeat sequence inhibits MRX accumulation at nearby DNA ends in a Tbf1-dependent manner. Moreover, tethering of both Tbf1 and Rap1 proteins decreases MRX and Tel1 accumulation at nearby DNA ends. This Tbf1- and Rap1-dependent pathway operates independently of Rif1 or Rif2 function. Depletion of Tbf1 protein stimulates checkpoint activation in cells containing short telomeres but not in cells containing normal-length telomeres. These data support a model in which Tbf1 and Rap1 collaborate to maintain genomic stability of short telomeres.
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- Kenzo Fukunaga
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA
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