This gene is a member of the telombin family and encodes a nuclear protein involved in telomere maintenance. Specifically, this protein functions as a member of a multi-protein complex known as shelterin, that binds to the TTAGGG repeats of telomeres, regulating telomere length and protecting chromosome ends from illegitimate recombination, catastrophic chromosome instability, and abnormal chromosome segregation. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described.[3]
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↑ 6.06.1Liu D, Safari A, O'Connor MS, Chan DW, Laegeler A, Qin J, Songyang Z (Jul 2004). "PTOP interacts with POT1 and regulates its localization to telomeres". Nat. Cell Biol. 6 (7): 673–80. doi:10.1038/ncb1142. PMID15181449.
↑Loayza D, De Lange T (Jun 2003). "POT1 as a terminal transducer of TRF1 telomere length control". Nature. 423 (6943): 1013–8. doi:10.1038/nature01688. PMID12768206.
↑Ramsay AJ, Quesada V, Foronda M, Conde L, Martínez-Trillos A, Villamor N, Rodríguez D, Kwarciak A, Garabaya C, Gallardo M, López-Guerra M, López-Guillermo A, Puente XS, Blasco MA, Campo E, López-Otín C (2013). "POT1 mutations cause telomere dysfunction in chronic lymphocytic leukemia". Nat. Genet. 45 (5): 526–30. doi:10.1038/ng.2584. PMID23502782.
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↑Bainbridge MN, Armstrong GN, Gramatges MM, Bertuch AA, Jhangiani SN, Doddapaneni H, Lewis L, Tombrello J, Tsavachidis S, Liu Y, Jalali A, Plon SE, Lau CC, Parsons DW, Claus EB, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Il'yasova D, Schildkraut J, Ali-Osman F, Sadetzki S, Johansen C, Houlston RS, Jenkins RB, Lachance D, Olson SH, Bernstein JL, Merrell RT, Wrensch MR, Walsh KM, Davis FG, Lai R, Shete S, Aldape K, Amos CI, Thompson PA, Muzny DM, Gibbs RA, Melin BS, Bondy ML (2015). "Germline mutations in shelterin complex genes are associated with familial glioma". J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 107 (1): dju384. doi:10.1093/jnci/dju384. PMC4296199. PMID25482530.
Further reading
de Lange T (2005). "Shelterin: the protein complex that shapes and safeguards human telomeres". Genes Dev. 19 (18): 2100–10. doi:10.1101/gad.1346005. PMID16166375.
Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (1997). "Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery". Genome Res. 6 (9): 791–806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMID8889548.
Loayza D, De Lange T (2003). "POT1 as a terminal transducer of TRF1 telomere length control". Nature. 423 (6943): 1013–8. doi:10.1038/nature01688. PMID12768206.
Colgin LM, Baran K, Baumann P, Cech TR, Reddel RR (2004). "Human POT1 facilitates telomere elongation by telomerase". Curr. Biol. 13 (11): 942–6. doi:10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00339-7. PMID12781132.
Loayza D, Parsons H, Donigian J, Hoke K, de Lange T (2004). "DNA binding features of human POT1: a nonamer 5'-TAGGGTTAG-3' minimal binding site, sequence specificity, and internal binding to multimeric sites". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (13): 13241–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.M312309200. PMID14715659.
Kondo T, Oue N, Yoshida K, Mitani Y, Naka K, Nakayama H, Yasui W (2004). "Expression of POT1 is associated with tumor stage and telomere length in gastric carcinoma". Cancer Res. 64 (2): 523–9. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-03-1196. PMID14744765.
Liu D, Safari A, O'Connor MS, Chan DW, Laegeler A, Qin J, Songyang Z (2004). "PTOP interacts with POT1 and regulates its localization to telomeres". Nat. Cell Biol. 6 (7): 673–80. doi:10.1038/ncb1142. PMID15181449.
Lei M, Podell ER, Cech TR (2005). "Structure of human POT1 bound to telomeric single-stranded DNA provides a model for chromosome end-protection". Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 11 (12): 1223–9. doi:10.1038/nsmb867. PMID15558049.
Veldman T, Etheridge KT, Counter CM (2005). "Loss of hPot1 function leads to telomere instability and a cut-like phenotype". Curr. Biol. 14 (24): 2264–70. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2004.12.031. PMID15620654.
Lei M, Zaug AJ, Podell ER, Cech TR (2005). "Switching human telomerase on and off with hPOT1 protein in vitro". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (21): 20449–56. doi:10.1074/jbc.M502212200. PMID15792951.