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Telomere Fragility and MiDAS: Managing the Gaps at the End of the Road.
Genes - 29 Jan 2023
Barnes Ryan P, Thosar Sanjana A, Opresko Patricia L
Abstract excerpt
Telomeres present inherent difficulties to the DNA replication machinery due to their repetitive sequence content, formation of non-B DNA secondary structures, and the presence of the nucleo-protein t-loop. Especially in cancer cells, telomeres are hot spots for replication stress, which can result in a visible phenotype in metaphase cells termed "telomere fragility". A mechanism cells employ to mitigate...
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