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Disease states associated with telomerase deficiency appear earlier in mice with short telomeres
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Mice deficient for the mouse telomerase RNA (mTR-/-) and lacking telomerase activity can only be bred for approximately six generations due to decreased male and female fertility and to an increased embryonic lethality associated with a neural tube closure defect. Although late generation mTR-/- mice show defects in the hematopoietic system, they are viable to adulthood, only showing a decrease in viability in old age. To assess the contribution of genetic background to the effect of telomerase deficiency on viability, we generated mTR-/- mutants on a C57BL6 background, which showed shorter telomeres than the original mixed genetic background C57BL6/129Sv. Interestingly, these mice could be bred for only four generations and the survival of late generation mTR-/- mice decreased dramatically with age as compared with their wild-type counterparts. Fifty percent of the generation 4 mice die at only 5 months of age. This decreased viability with age in the late generation mice is coincident with telomere shortening, sterility, splenic atrophy, reduced proliferative capacity of B and T cells, abnormal hematology and atrophy of the small intestine. These results indicate that telomere shortening in mTR-/- mice leads to progressive loss of organismal viability.
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- Authors
- Herrera, E., Samper, E., Martín‐Caballero, J., Flores, J. M., Lee, H., & Blasco, M. A.
- Affiliations
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)
- Samsung Biomedical Research Institute (KR)
- Corresponding author
- Blasco, María A.
- Venue
- The EMBO Journal
- Published
- 1999-06-01
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 2950-2960
- ISSN
- 0261-4189 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-2075
- PMC
- PMC1171377
- OpenAlex
- W2153094950
- Semantic Scholar
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- journal article
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- en
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- Funders
- European Molecular Biology Organization
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Nuclear Structure and Function
- Keywords
- telomerase deficiency, telomere shortening, genetic background effects, age-related mortality, fertility, embryonic lethality, neural tube defects, hematopoietic defects, splenic atrophy, hematological abnormalities
- MeSH terms
- Aging, Animals, Atrophy, Body Weight, Cells, Cultured, Crosses, Genetic, Female, Genes, Lethal, Hematopoietic System, Infertility, Intestine, Small, Leukocyte Count, Longevity, Lymphocytes, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Spleen, Testis, Time Factors, Telomere, Mice, Knockout, Telomerase, Mice
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