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Ungrin, Mark David.

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Approaches to controlling the activation of telomerase in living cells.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Approaches to controlling the activation of telomerase in living cells./
Author:	Ungrin, Mark David.
Description:	169 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: B, page: 2973.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-06B.
Subject:	Biology, Molecular. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR02826
ISBN:	9780494028261

Approaches to controlling the activation of telomerase in living cells.
Ungrin, Mark David.

Approaches to controlling the activation of telomerase in living cells. - 169 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: B, page: 2973.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2005.

Telomeres are the terminal structures of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. The DNA component is incompletely replicated during genome duplication, resulting in cumulative degradation over successive cell cycles. In many species, this loss is compensated via addition of telomere repeat sequences by the atypical reverse transcriptase telomerase.

ISBN: 9780494028261Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017719
Biology, Molecular.

Approaches to controlling the activation of telomerase in living cells.
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520 $a Telomeres are the terminal structures of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. The DNA component is incompletely replicated during genome duplication, resulting in cumulative degradation over successive cell cycles. In many species, this loss is compensated via addition of telomere repeat sequences by the atypical reverse transcriptase telomerase.
520 $a Telomerase activity is generally limited by levels of hTERT, the catalytic component of the enzyme. In many cases overexpression of this protein is sufficient to activate telomerase and alleviate the Hayflick limit, resulting in apparent population immortality. Ectopic activation of telomerase is a common feature of human cancer. Numerous other components of the telomere-telomerase system have been reported, recently including hEST1A, which may play a significant role in multiple pathways.
520 $a In this thesis I report the results of an investigation of methods for controlling telomerase activation. Initially, a commercially available biochemical induction system was employed to control hTERT transcription. In this case, expression control proved to be insufficiently stringent. In the absence of the inducing agent, hTERT protein expression was detected and telomerase activation was observed, resulting in population lifespan extension. These results reflect the previously published observation that extremely low levels of hTERT transcription can suffice to render a cell phenotypically telomerase-positive.
520 $a I then generated a genetic switch system, based on reversible physical remodeling of DNA by the Cre recombinase. Use of antiparallel Cre recognition (loxP) sites on the same molecule results in inversion rather than excision of the intervening sequence. A constitutively active transcriptional promoter was positioned external to this region and genes of interest within it. This permitted the open reading frames to be juxtaposed to the transcriptional promoter, or alternately to be moved away from it and reversed in orientation. Internal ribosome entry sites were employed in an attempt to obtain coordinate regulation of multiple genes.
520 $a This approach was tested using fluorescent protein expression, and then applied to hTERT. In this case, Cre-mediated activation of hTERT expression was both necessary and sufficient for telomerase activation, telomere maintenance, and population lifespan extension. Finally, the results of transient overexpression of hTERT and hEST1A using adenoviral vectors will also be discussed.
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