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GENETICS
Volume 166, Issue 4, Pages 1641-1649Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.4.1641
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Telomerase-defective budding yeast cells escape senescence by using homologous recombination to amplify telomeric or subtelomeric structures. Similarly, human cells that enter senescence can use homologous recombination for telomere maintenance, when telomerase cannot be activated. Although recombination proteins required to generate telomerase-independent survivors have been intensely studied, little is known about the nucleases that generate the substrates for recombination. Here we demonstrate that the Exo1 exonuclease is an initiator of the recombination process that allows cells to escape senescence and become immortal in the absence of telomerase. We show that EXO1 is important for generating type I survivors in yku70Delta mre11Delta cells and type II survivors in tlc1Delta cells. Moreover, in the tlc1Delta cells, EXO1 seems to contribute to the senescence process itself.
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