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NATURE
卷 461, 期 7261, 页码 230-U104出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature08283
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- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG023145, R01 AG023145-05, R01 AG23145] Funding Source: Medline
Constitutive expression of telomerase in human cells prevents the onset of senescence and crisis by maintaining telomere homeostasis. However, accumulating evidence suggests that the human telomerase reverse transcriptase catalytic subunit ( TERT) contributes to cell physiology independently of its ability to elongate telomeres. Here we show that TERT interacts with the RNA component of mitochondrial RNA processing endoribonuclease (RMRP), a gene that is mutated in the inherited pleiotropic syndrome cartilage-hair hypoplasia. Human TERT and RMRP form a distinct ribonucleoprotein complex that has RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) activity and produces double- stranded RNAs that can be processed into small interfering RNA in a Dicer ( also known as DICER1)-dependent manner. These observations identify a mammalian RdRP composed of TERT in complex with RMRP.
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