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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
卷 35, 期 16, 页码 2818-2830出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01317-14
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- LIGUE Grand-Ouest contre le Cancer (Comites Charente)
- Fondation de France
- Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium)
- LIGUE Grand-Ouest contre le Cancer (Eure-et-Loir)
- LIGUE Grand-Ouest contre le Cancer (Ille-et-Vilaine)
- LIGUE Grand-Ouest contre le Cancer (Indre-et-Loire)
- LIGUE Grand-Ouest contre le Cancer (Morbihan)
- LIGUE Grand-Ouest contre le Cancer (Sarthe)
- LIGUE Grand-Ouest contre le Cancer (Vendee)
- LIGUE Grand-Ouest contre le Cancer (Vienne)
Mutations in ATRX (alpha thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked), a chromatin-remodeling protein, are associated with the telomerase-independent ALT (alternative lengthening of telomeres) pathway of telomere maintenance in several types of cancer, including human gliomas. In telomerase-positive glioma cells, we found by immunofluorescence that ATRX localized not far from the chromosome ends but not exactly at the telomere termini. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiments confirmed a subtelomeric localization for ATRX, yet short hairpin RNA (shRNA)-mediated genetic inactivation of ATRX failed to trigger the ALT pathway. Cohesin has been recently shown to be part of telomeric chromatin. Here, using ChIP, we showed that genetic inactivation of ATRX provoked diminution in the amount of cohesin in subtelomeric regions of telomerase-positive glioma cells. Inactivation of ATRX also led to diminution in the amount of TERRAs, noncoding RNAs resulting from transcription of telomeric DNA, as well as to a decrease in RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) levels at the telomeres. Our data suggest that ATRX might establish functional interactions with cohesin on telomeric chromatin in order to control TERRA levels and that one or the other or both of these events might be relevant to the triggering of the ALT pathway in cancer cells that exhibit genetic inactivation of ATRX.
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