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A Noncanonical Function of the Telomerase RNA Component in Human Embryonic Stem Cells
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | A Noncanonical Function of the Telomerase RNA Component in Human Embryonic Stem Cells. |
| 개인저자 | Brenner, Kirsten Ann. |
| 단체저자명 | Washington University in St. Louis. Biology & Biomedical Sciences (Molecular Genetics & Genomics). |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: Washington University in St. Louis., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 139 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-05B. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781392492505 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University in St. Louis, 2019. |
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-05, Section: B.
Advisor: Batista, Luis F. Z. |
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| 요약 | Telomeres are stretches of TTAGGG nucleotide repeats located at the ends of linear chromosomes that shorten with progressive cell division and prevent genomic instability at the cost of limiting a cell's capacity to proliferate. This limitation can be overcome by telomerase, a ribonucleoprotein complex that elongates telomeres via reverse-transcription of the template telomerase RNA component (TERC). Recent studies have reported potential functions of TERC outside of its role in telomere maintenance. These noncanonical functions of TERC are however poorly defined, and the molecular mechanisms and biological relevance behind such functions remain elusive. Here, we generated conditional TERC knock-out human embryonic stem cells (iTERC_KO hESCs) to uncouple TERC expression from telomere length maintenance in order to investigate the consequences of TERC ablation in the absence of telomere dysfunction. We found that deletion of TERC led to a synchronized, widespread induction of apoptosis in the absence of short or dysfunctional telomeres. This phenotype is not recapitulated in conditional telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) knock-out hESCs and can be prevented by expression of a TERC mutant RNA that fails to bind the remaining telomerase components dyskerin and TCAB1. Therefore, TERC has an essential function independent of the telomerase complex in hESCs. Conversely, we found that TERC is dispensable in somatic cells, indicating that the antiapoptotic role of TERC in hESCs is not universal across cell types. Finally, we report that TERC53, a short form of TERC processed in the mitochondria and exported to the cytosol, is necessary and sufficient to prevent apoptosis in iTERC_KO hESCs. These results support a model in which TERC53 acts in the cytosol outside of the telomerase complex to inhibit apoptosis and promote survival in human stem cells. |
| 일반주제명 | Molecular biology. Cellular biology. Genetics. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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