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ATM mediates cytotoxicity of a mutant telomerase RNA in human cancer cells.
Cancer research - 1 Jul 2008
Stohr Bradley A, Blackburn Elizabeth H
Abstract excerpt
Telomeres are elongated by the enzyme telomerase, which contains a template-bearing RNA (TER or TERC) and a protein reverse transcriptase. Overexpression of a particular mutant human TER with a mutated template sequence (MT-hTer-47A) in telomerase-positive cancer cells causes incorporation of mutant telomeric sequences, telomere uncapping, and initiation of a DNA damage response, ultimately resulting in cell...
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