ReviewCurrent opinion in genetics & development2020
Telomere fusions and translocations: a bridge too far?
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- Telomere Length and Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma: Unraveling Causal Mechanisms Through Integrative Genetic and Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis.Mediators of inflammation · 2025Article
- Transcription stress at telomeres leads to cytosolic DNA release and paracrine senescence.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Chromogenic detection of telomere lengths in situ aids the identification of precancerous lesions in the prostate.The Prostate · 2024Article
- SiR-DNA/SiR-Hoechst-induced chromosome entanglement generates severe anaphase bridges and DNA damage.Life science alliance · 2023Article
- The Relationship between Telomere Length and Nucleoplasmic Bridges and Severity of Disease in Prostate Cancer Patients.Cancers · 2023Article
- Connections between sister and non-sister telomeres of segregating chromatids maintain euploidy.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Life of double minutes: generation, maintenance, and elimination.Chromosoma · 2022Review
- Celebrating Mendel, McClintock, and Darlington: On end-to-end chromosome fusions and nested chromosome fusions.The Plant cell · 2022Review
- Integration of Epigenetic Mechanisms into Non-Genotoxic Carcinogenicity Hazard Assessment: Focus on DNA Methylation and Histone Modifications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Telomere Replication: Solving Multiple End Replication Problems.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Using telomeric chromosomal aberrations to evaluate clastogen-induced genomic instability in mammalian cells.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Telomere fusions inevitably arise as a cell's last-ditch effort to protect exposed chromosomal ends when telomeres are lost due to aging-associated erosion, breakage, failed replication, or a plethora of other cellular mistakes. Fusion of an exposed chromosomal end to another telomere presumably presents a superficially attractive option to the cell as opposed to the alternative of the impending degradation of the unprotected chromosomal terminus. However, when allowed to progress to mitosis these fusion events subsequently foster non-disjunction or bridge:breakage events - both of which drive highly pathogenic genomic instability and additional chromosomal translocations. Thus, the question becomes how and when telomere fusion events arise and, most importantly, is there a mechanism available to resolve these telomere bridges such that proper repair, and not genomic instability, results? Recent evidence suggests that the formation, and then the resolution of, ultrafine bridges may facilitate this process.
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