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ArticleCell reports2015

Expansion of Interstitial Telomeric Sequences in Yeast.

Anna Y Aksenova, Gil Han, Alexander A Shishkin, Kirill V Volkov, Sergei M Mirkin

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Article in Cell reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Emerging drivers of DNA repeat expansions.Biochemical Society transactions · 2025
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  3. Interstitial telomeric sequences promote gross chromosomal rearrangement via multiple mechanisms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  4. Review
  5. Break-induced replication: unraveling each step.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2022
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  7. Homologous recombination within repetitive DNA.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2021
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  11. Telomeric small RNAs in the genusRNA (New York, N.Y.) · 2019
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  12. Molecular characterization ofLife science alliance · 2019
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  20. Precarious maintenance of simple DNA repeats in eukaryotes.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Anna Y AksenovaDepartment of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA; Department of Genetics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
Gil HanDepartment of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Alexander A ShishkinBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Kirill V VolkovDepartment of Genetics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
Sergei M MirkinDepartment of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA. Electronic address: sergei.mirkin@tufts.edu.
Tufts University · USBroad Institute · USSt Petersburg University · RU

Funding

Mutations Arising During DNA RepairP01GM105473 · NIGMS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI LOVETT, SUSAN THOMAS · 2014 to 2018
$8.6M
REPLICATION OF SIMPLE DNA REPEATSR01GM060987 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI MIRKIN, SERGEI · 2001 to 2017
$4.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM105473NIGMS NIH HHS GM60987NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM105473NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM060987
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Telomeric repeats located within chromosomes are called interstitial telomeric sequences (ITSs). They are polymorphic in length and are likely hotspots for initiation of chromosomal rearrangements that have been linked to human disease. Using our S. cerevisiae system to study repeat-mediated genome instability, we have previously shown that yeast telomeric (Ytel) repeats induce various gross chromosomal rearrangements (GCR) when their G-rich strands serve as the lagging strand template for replication (G orientation). Here, we show that interstitial Ytel repeats in the opposite C orientation prefer to expand rather than cause GCR. A tract of eight Ytel repeats expands at a rate of 4 × 10(-4) per replication, ranking them among the most expansion-prone DNA microsatellites. A candidate-based genetic analysis implicates both post-replication repair and homologous recombination pathways in the expansion process. We propose a model for Ytel repeat expansions and discuss its applications for genome instability and alternative telomere lengthening (ALT).

Indexed as

Chromosome AberrationsDNA, FungalDNA RepairDNA ReplicationGenomic InstabilityHomologous RecombinationMicrosatellite RepeatsRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidSaccharomyces cerevisiaeTelomereDNA, Fungal

Identifiers

PMID26586439
PMCPMC4662878
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