Immortal, telomerase-negative cell lines derived from a Li-Fraumeni syndrome patient exhibit telomere length variability and chromosomal and minisatellite instabilities.
Immortal, telomerase-negative cell lines derived from a Li-Fraumeni syndrome patient exhibit telomere length variability and chromosomal and minisatellite instabilities.
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来自李法美尼综合征患者的永生端粒酶阴性细胞系表现出端粒长度变异性以及染色体和小卫星不稳定性。
DOI:
10.1093/carcin/bgg024
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发表时间:
2003
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影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Barrett,JCarl
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作者:
Tsutsui,Takeki;Kumakura,Shin-Ichi;Tamura,Yukiko;Tsutsui,TakeoW;Sekiguchi,Mizuki;Higuchi,Tokihiro;Barrett,JCarl
Five immortal cell lines derived from a Li-Fraumeni syndrome patient (MDAH 087) with a germline mutantp53allele were characterized with respect to telomere length and genomic instability. The remaining wild-typep53allele is lost in the cell lines. Telomerase activity was undetectable in all immortal cell lines. Five subclones of each cell line and five re-subclones of each of the subclones also showed undetectable telomerase activity. All five immortal cell lines exhibited variability in the mean length of terminal restriction fragments (TRFs). Subclones of each cell line, and re-subclones of the subclones also showed TRF variability, indicating that the variability is owing to clonal heterogeneity. Chromosome aberrations were observed at high frequencies in these cell lines including the subclones and re-subclones, and the principal types of aberrations were breaks, double minute chromosomes and dicentric chromosomes. In addition, minisatellite instability detected by DNA fingerprints was observed in the immortal cell lines. However, all of the cell lines were negative for microsatellite instability. As minisatellite sequences are considered recombinogenic in mammalian cells, these results suggest that recombination rates can be increased in these cell lines. Tumor-derived human cell lines, HT1080 cells and HeLa cells that also lackp53function, exhibited little genomic instability involving chromosomal and minisatellite instabilities, indicating that chromosomal and minisatellite instabilities observed in the immortal cell lines lacking telomerase activity could not result from loss ofp53function.