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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2016

Multiple Mechanisms Contribute to the Cell Growth Defects Imparted by Human Telomerase Insertion in Fingers Domain Mutations Associated with Premature Aging Diseases.

Tsz Wai Chu, Deanna Elise MacNeil, Chantal Autexier

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2016. 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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9citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Telomerase structural biology comes of age.Current opinion in structural biology · 2022
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  3. A structurally conserved human andProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  4. Structural biology of telomeres and telomerase.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2020
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  6. Structural biology of telomerase and its interaction at telomeres.Current opinion in structural biology · 2017
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  9. Molecular mechanisms of telomere biology disorders.The Journal of biological chemistry
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tsz Wai ChuFrom the Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal H3T 1E2, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal H4A 3J1, Canada, and.
Deanna Elise MacNeilFrom the Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal H3T 1E2, Canada, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montréal H3A 0C7, Canada.
Chantal AutexierFrom the Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal H3T 1E2, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal H4A 3J1, Canada, and Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montréal H3A 0C7, Canada chantal.autexier@mcgill.ca.
Jewish General Hospital · CAMcGill University · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Normal human stem cells rely on low levels of active telomerase to sustain their high replicative requirements. Deficiency in telomere maintenance mechanisms leads to the development of premature aging diseases, such as dyskeratosis congenita and aplastic anemia. Mutations in the unique "insertion in fingers domain" (IFD) in the human telomerase reverse transcriptase catalytic subunit (hTERT) have previously been identified and shown to be associated with dyskeratosis congenita and aplastic anemia. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms impacted by these IFD mutations. We performed comparative functional analyses of disease-associated IFD variants at the molecular and cellular levels. We report that hTERT-P721R- and hTERT-R811C-expressing cells exhibited growth defects likely due to impaired TPP1-mediated recruitment of these variant enzymes to telomeres. We showed that activity and processivity of hTERT-T726M failed to be stimulated by TPP1-POT1 overexpression and that dGTP usage by this variant was less efficient compared with the wild-type enzyme. hTERT-P785L-expressing cells did not show growth defects, and this variant likely confers cell survival through increased DNA synthesis and robust activity stimulation by TPP1-POT1. Altogether, our data suggest that multiple mechanisms contribute to cell growth defects conferred by the IFD variants.

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Mutation, MissenseAging, PrematureAmino Acid SubstitutionAminopeptidasesDipeptidyl-Peptidases and Tripeptidyl-PeptidasesHEK293 CellsHeLa CellsHumansProtein Structure, TertiarySerine ProteasesShelterin ComplexTelomeraseTelomere-Binding ProteinsACD protein, humanAminopeptidasesDipeptidyl-Peptidases and Tripeptidyl-PeptidasesPOT1 protein, humanSerine ProteasesShelterin ComplexTelomeraseTelomere-Binding ProteinsTERT protein, humancell deathDNA damage responseRNA-protein interactiontelomerasetelomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT)telomere

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PMID26887940
PMCPMC4861413
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