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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
37
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-10-21
pubmed:abstractText
It has been repeatedly suspected that telomere shortening might be one possible trigger of the p53-dependent cell cycle arrest, although the mechanism of this arrest remained unclear. Telomeres in human cells under mild oxidative stress accumulate single-strand damage faster than interstitial repetitive sequences. In MRC-5 fibroblasts and U87 glioblastoma cells, which both express wild-type p53, oxidative stress-mediated production of single-strand damage in telomeres is concomitant to the accumulation of p53 and p21 and to cell cycle arrest. This response can be modeled by treatment of cells with short single stranded telomeric G-rich DNA fragments. The arrest is transient in U87 cells. Recovery from it is accompanied by up-regulation of telomerase activity and elongation of telomeres. Overexpression of mutated p53 is sufficient to reverse the phenotype of inhibition as well as the delayed activation of telomerase. These data suggest that the production of G-rich single stranded fragments during the course of telomere shortening is sufficient to trigger a p53 dependent cell cycle arrest.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0950-9232
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
16
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5148-58
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Adenocarcinoma, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Amino Acid Substitution, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Brain Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Cell Cycle, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Cell Line, Transformed, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-DNA, Single-Stranded, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-DNA Fragmentation, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Fibroblasts, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Genes, p53, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Glioblastoma, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Guanine, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Lung, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Neoplasm Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Ovarian Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Oxidative Stress, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Point Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Telomerase, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Telomere, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Tumor Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:10498864-Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Telomere shortening triggers a p53-dependent cell cycle arrest via accumulation of G-rich single stranded DNA fragments.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Pathology, Charité. Schumannstrasse 20/21. 10098 Berlin, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't