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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Paula Martinez
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-20867 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Martinez Paula P Thanasoula Maria M Carlos Ana R AR Gómez-López Gonzalo G Tejera Agueda M AM Schoeftner Stefan S Dominguez Orlando O Pisano David G DG Tarsounas Madalena M Blasco Maria A MA
Nature cell biology 20100711 8
Rap1 is a component of the shelterin complex at mammalian telomeres, but its in vivo role in telomere biology has remained largely unknown to date. Here we show that Rap1 deficiency is dispensable for telomere capping but leads to increased telomere recombination and fragility. We generated cells and mice deleted for Rap1; mice with Rap1 deletion in stratified epithelia were viable but had shorter telomeres and developed skin hyperpigmentation in adulthood. By performing chromatin immunoprecipit ...[more]