Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

ARID1A promotes genomic stability through protecting telomere cohesion

  • Bo Zhao,
  • Jianhuang Lin,
  • Lijie Rong,
  • Shuai Wu,
  • Zhong Deng,
  • Nail Fatkhutdinov,
  • Joseph Zundell,
  • Takeshi Fukumoto,
  • Qin Liu,
  • Andrew Kossenkov,
  • Stephanie Jean,
  • Mark G. Cadungog,
  • Mark E. Borowsky,
  • Ronny Drapkin,
  • Paul M. Lieberman,
  • Cory T. Abate-Shen,
  • Rugang Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12037-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Cells with ARID1A mutations exhibit mitotic defects, yet show surprisingly low levels of copy number defects. Here, Zhao et al. resolve this issue by showing that ARID1A loss causes defects in telomere cohesion, which selects against gross alterations in copy number.