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Telomere dysfunction induces two types of cellular response: cellular senescence and apoptosis. We analysed the extent to which the cellular level of telomere dysfunction and p53 gene status affect these cellular responses in mouse liver using the experimental system of TRF2 inhibition by a dominant-negative version of the protein (TRF2ΔBΔM). We show that the level of telomere dysfunction correlates with the level of TRF2ΔBΔM protein expression resulting in chromosomal fusions, aberrant mitotic figures and aneuploidy of liver cells. These alterations provoked p53-independent apoptosis, but a strictly p53-dependent senescence response in distinct populations of mouse liver cells depending on the cellular level of TRF2ΔBΔM expression. Apoptosis was associated with higher expression of TRF2ΔBΔM, whereas cellular senescence was associated with low levels of TRF2ΔBΔM expression. Our data provide experimental evidence that induction of senescence or apoptosis in vivo depends on the cellular level of telomere dysfunction and differentially on p53 gene function. ©2005 European Molecular Biology Organization.
Author(s): Lechel A, Satyanarayana A, Ju Z, Plentz RR, Schaetzlein S, Rudolph C, Wilkens L, Wiemann SU, Saretzki G, Malek NP, Manns MP, Buer J, Rudolph KL
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: EMBO Reports
Year: 2005
Volume: 6
Issue: 3
Pages: 275-281
Print publication date: 01/03/2005
ISSN (print): 1469-221X
ISSN (electronic): 1469-3178
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.embor.7400352
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400352
PubMed id: 15723042
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