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CELL
Volume 160, Issue 5, Pages 913-927Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.01.044
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- European Research Council [242934]
- INSERM AVENIR
- Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer
- European Research Council (ERC) [242934] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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The breakage-fusion-bridge cycle is a classical mechanism of telomere-driven genome instability in which dysfunctional telomeres are fused to other chromosomal extremities, creating dicentric chromosomes that eventually break at mitosis. Here, we uncover a distinct pathway of telomere-driven genome instability, specifically occurring in cells that maintain telomeres with the alternative lengthening of telomeres mechanism. We show that, in these cells, telomeric DNA is added to multiple discrete sites throughout the genome, corresponding to regions regulated by NR2C/F transcription factors. These proteins drive local telomere DNA addition by recruiting telomeric chromatin. This mechanism, which we name targeted telomere insertion (TTI), generates potential common fragile sites that destabilize the genome. We propose that TTI driven by NR2C/F proteins contributes to the formation of complex karyotypes in ALT tumors.
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