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Front Biosci (Landmark Ed)
January 2025
The Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, Hunan Normal University Health Science Center, 410013 Changsha, Hunan, China.
Background: α thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked (ATRX) serves as a part of the sucrose nonfermenting 2 (SNF2) chromatin-remodeling complex. In interphase, ATRX localizes to pericentromeric heterochromatin, contributing to DNA double-strand break repair, DNA replication, and telomere maintenance. During mitosis, most ATRX proteins are removed from chromosomal arms, leaving a pool near the centromere region in mammalian cells, which is critical for accurate chromosome congression and sister chromatid cohesion protection.
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January 2025
Genome Integrity Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia.
Double-strand breaks (DSBs) can initiate mitotic catastrophe, a complex oncosuppressive phenomenon characterized by cell death during or after cell division. Here we unveil how cell cycle-regulated DSB repair guides disparate cell death outcomes through single-cell analysis of extended live imaging. Following DSB induction in S or G2, passage of unresolved homologous recombination intermediates into mitosis promotes non-immunogenic intrinsic apoptosis in the immediate attempt at cell division.
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December 2024
Laboratory of Genome Integrity, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
The natural ends of chromosomes resemble double-strand breaks (DSBs), which would activate the DNA damage response (DDR) pathway without the protection provided by a specialized protein complex called shelterin. Over the past decades, extensive research has uncovered the mechanism of action and the high degree of specialization provided by the shelterin complex to prevent aberrant activation of DNA repair machinery at chromosome ends in somatic cells. However, recent findings have revealed striking differences in the mechanisms of end protection in stem cells compared to somatic cells.
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December 2024
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, W. R. Hearst Microbiology Research Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America.
TRF2 is an essential and conserved double-strand telomere binding protein that stabilizes chromosome ends by suppressing DNA damage response and aberrant DNA repair. Herein we investigated the mechanisms and functions of the Trf2 ortholog in the basidiomycete fungus Ustilago maydis, which manifests strong resemblances to metazoans with regards to the telomere and DNA repair machinery. We showed that UmTrf2 binds to Blm in vitro and inhibits Blm-mediated unwinding of telomeric DNA substrates.
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January 2025
Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Purpose Of Review: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by diffuse organ fibrosis and vasculopathy. Aberrant aging has been increasingly implicated in fibrotic diseases of the lung and other organs. The aim of this review is to summarize the established mechanisms of aging and how they may contribute to the pathogenesis of SSc.
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