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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 55-63Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(01)00154-X
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A paramount role of telomeres is to prevent chromosome fusions. The fission yeast Taz1 protein regulates diverse telomere functions but is not essential for growth under stress-free conditions. Strikingly, however, taz1(-) cells exhibit lethal telomere fusions when subjected to nitrogen starvation, a treatment that induces an uncommitted G1 state. These fusions are formed by Ku-dependent nonhomologous end joining. Fusions also occur during normal growth in taz1(-) cells that lack rad22(+), a gene involved in homologous recombination. Our data suggest a model whereby taz1(-) telomeres are exposed to the prevailing mode of DNA repair, which is dictated by the cell cycle. Thus, Taz1 caps chromosome ends and provides the telomere-specific interaction that prevents Ku from treating telomeres as double-strand breaks.
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