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ArticleNucleic acids research2013

A new telomerase RNA element that is critical for telomere elongation.

Nancy Laterreur, Sébastien H Eschbach, Daniel A Lafontaine, Raymund J Wellinger

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Telomerase RNA stem terminus element affects template boundary element function, telomere sequence, and shelterin binding.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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  11. Progress in structural studies of telomerase.Current opinion in structural biology · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nancy LaterreurDepartment of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Biology, RNA Group, Université de Sherbrooke, 3201, rue Jean-Mignault, Sherbrooke J1E 4K8, Canada.
Sébastien H Eschbach
Daniel A Lafontaine
Raymund J Wellinger
Université de Sherbrooke · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP97874
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The stability of chromosome ends, the telomeres, is dependent on the ribonucleoprotein telomerase. In vitro, telomerase requires at least one RNA molecule and a reverse transcriptase-like protein. However, for telomere homeostasis in vivo, additional proteins are required. Telomerase RNAs of different species vary in size and sequence and only few features common to all telomerases are known. Here we show that stem-loop IVc of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae telomerase RNA contains a structural element that is required for telomerase function in vivo. Indeed, the distal portion of stem-loop IVc stimulates telomerase activity in vitro in a way that is independent of Est1 binding on more proximal portions of this stem-loop. Functional analyses of the RNA in vivo reveal that this distal element we call telomerase-stimulating structure (TeSS) must contain a bulged area in single stranded form and also show that Est1-dependent functions such as telomerase import or recruitment are not affected by TeSS. This study thus uncovers a new structural telomerase RNA element implicated in catalytic activity. Given previous evidence for TeSS elements in ciliate and mammalian RNAs, we speculate that this substructure is a conserved feature that is required for optimal telomerase holoenzyme function.

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Telomere HomeostasisBase SequenceMolecular Sequence DataMutationNucleic Acid ConformationRNASaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTelomeraseEST1 protein, S cerevisiaeRNASaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTelomerasetelomerase RNA

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PMID23783570
PMCPMC3763530
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