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SUBMITTER: Seo B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4595603 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seo Beomseok B Kim Chuna C Hills Mark M Sung Sanghyun S Kim Hyesook H Kim Eunkyeong E Lim Daisy S DS Oh Hyun-Seok HS Choi Rachael Mi Jung RMJ Chun Jongsik J Shim Jaegal J Lee Junho J
Nature communications 20150918
Cells surviving crisis are often tumorigenic and their telomeres are commonly maintained through the reactivation of telomerase. However, surviving cells occasionally activate a recombination-based mechanism called alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT). Here we establish stably maintained survivors in telomerase-deleted Caenorhabditis elegans that escape from sterility by activating ALT. ALT survivors trans-duplicate an internal genomic region, which is already cis-duplicated to chromosome ...[more]