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Telomere shortening and tumor formation by mouse cells lacking telomerase RNA

M A Blasco et al. Cell. 1997.

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Abstract

To examine the role of telomerase in normal and neoplastic growth, the telomerase RNA component (mTR) was deleted from the mouse germline. mTR-/- mice lacked detectable telomerase activity yet were viable for the six generations analyzed. Telomerase-deficient cells could be immortalized in culture, transformed by viral oncogenes, and generated tumors in nude mice following transformation. Telomeres were shown to shorten at a rate of 4.8+/-2.4 kb per mTR-/- generation. Cells from the fourth mTR-/- generation onward possessed chromosome ends lacking detectable telomere repeats, aneuploidy, and chromosomal abnormalities, including end-to-end fusions. These results indicate that telomerase is essential for telomere length maintenance but is not required for establishment of cell lines, oncogenic transformation, or tumor formation in mice.

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• Life and cancer without telomerase.
  Zakian VA. Zakian VA. Cell. 1997 Oct 3;91(1):1-3. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(01)80001-5. Cell. 1997. PMID: 9335327 Review. No abstract available.

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