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SUBMITTER: Hanish JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC44706 | biostudies-other | 1994 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Hanish J P JP Yanowitz J L JL de Lange T T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19940901 19
In human cells, transfection of telomeric T2AG3 repeats induces the formation of functional telomeres at previously interstitial sites. We report that telomere formation has stringent sequence requirements. While (T2AG3)n telomere seeds formed telomeres in approximately 70% of the transfected cells, five T2AG3-related heterologous telomeric DNAs seeded new telomeres in < 5% of the transfectants. Telomere formation did not correlate with the ability of human telomerase to elongate telomeric seque ...[more]