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Graduate Program in Molecular Biology, Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York 10021, USA.
Abstract
One of the central requirements for eukaryotic chromosome stability is the maintenance of the simple sequence tracts at telomeres. In this study, we use genetic and physical assays to reveal the nature of a novel mechanism by which telomere length is controlled. This mechanism, telomeric rapid deletion (TRD), is capable of reducing elongated telomeres to wild-type tract length in an apparently single-division process. The deletion of telomeres to wild-type lengths is stimulated by the hpr1 mutation, suggesting that TRD in these cells is the consequence of an intrachromatid pathway. Paradoxically, TRD is also dependent on the lengths of the majority of nonhomologous telomeres in the cell. Defects in the chromatin-organizing protein Sir3p increase the rate of hpr1-induced rapid deletion and specifically change the spectrum of rapid deletion events. We propose a model in which interactions among telosomes of nonhomologous chromosomes form higher order complexes that restrict the access of the intrachromatid recombination machinery to telomeres. This mechanism of size control is distinct from that mediated through telomerase and is likely to maintain telomere length within a narrow distribution.
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