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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 10, Pages 1199-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2662
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- Landesgraduiertenforderung fellowship
- long-term European Molecular Biology Organization [ALTF 9-2010]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 1036]
- Netzwerk Alters-Forschung (Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Wurttemberg)
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Although telomeres are heterochromatic, they are transcribed into noncoding telomeric repeat-containing RNA (TERRA). Here we show that RNA-DNA hybrids form at telomeres and are removed by RNase H enzymes in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In recombination-competent telomerase mutants, telomeric RNA-DNA hybrids promote recombination-mediated elongation events that delay the onset of cellular senescence. Reduction of TERRA and telomeric RNA-DNA-hybrid levels diminishes rates of recombination-mediated telomere elongation in cis. Overexpression of RNase H decreases telomere recombination rates and accelerates senescence in recombination-competent but not recombination-deficient cells. In contrast, in the absence of both telomerase and homologous recombination, accumulation of telomeric RNA-DNA hybrids leads to telomere loss and accelerated rates of cellular senescence. Therefore, the regulation of TERRA transcription and telomeric RNA-DNA-hybrid formation are important determinants of both telomere-length dynamics and proliferative potential after the inactivation of telomerase.
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