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ArticleEukaryotic cell2011

Recombination can cause telomere elongations as well as truncations deep within telomeres in wild-type Kluyveromyces lactis cells.

Laura H Bechard, Nathan Jamieson, Michael J McEachern

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Article in Eukaryotic cell, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Microbiology spectrum · 2026
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  3. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018
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  5. The many facets of homologous recombination at telomeres.Microbial cell (Graz, Austria) · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laura H BechardDepartment of Genetics, Fred Davidson Life Science Complex, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-7223, USA.
Nathan Jamieson
Michael J McEachern
University of Georgia · US

Funding

RECOMBINATIONAL TELOMERE MAINTENANCER01GM061645 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (UGA) · PI MCEACHERN, MICHAEL J. · 2000 to 2010
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM 61645NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM061645
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we examined the role of recombination at the telomeres of the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis. We demonstrated that an abnormally long and mutationally tagged telomere was subject to high rates of telomere rapid deletion (TRD) that preferentially truncated the telomere to near-wild-type size. Unlike the case in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, however, there was not a great increase in TRD in meiosis. About half of mitotic TRD events were associated with deep turnover of telomeric repeats, suggesting that telomeres were often cleaved to well below normal length prior to being reextended by telomerase. Despite its high rate of TRD, the long telomere showed no increase in the rate of subtelomeric gene conversion, a highly sensitive test of telomere dysfunction. We also showed that the long telomere was subject to appreciable rates of becoming elongated substantially further through a recombinational mechanism that added additional tagged repeats. Finally, we showed that the deep turnover that occurs within normal-length telomeres was diminished in the absence of RAD52. Taken together, our results suggest that homologous recombination is a significant process acting on both abnormally long and normally sized telomeres in K. lactis.

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Recombination, GeneticBase SequenceGene DeletionHumansKluyveromycesMeiosisRad52 DNA Repair and Recombination ProteinRestriction MappingSequence DeletionTelomereRad52 DNA Repair and Recombination Protein

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PMID21148753
PMCPMC3067406
OpenAlexW2134124753

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