The countries of central Europe will join the EU in May.Slovakia has been an increasing favourite among investors since a fragile centre-right coalition government took charge there in 1998 and won re-election in 2002.
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Failure to restart telomeric replication forks, due to Ctc1 loss, has been shown to lead to an increase in fragile telomeres, stochastic and accelerated telomere attrition, an increase in single-strand G-rich telomeric DNA, and a dramatically shortened replicative potential (Gu et al., 2012).
As Stn1 knockdown also resulted in an increase in chromosomal aberrations, such as an increase in fragile sites detected on metaphase chromosomes, it is likely that these nontelomeric DDR foci were a result of chromosome breakage at nontelomeric loci (Fig. S4B, Supporting information).
Furthermore, the drug aphidicolin, an inhibitor of polymerase α which by itself causes an increase in fragile telomeres (Sfeir et al., 2009), did not additionally increase the fragile and aberrant telomere phenotype of hStn1 knockdown cultures.
BLM, a TRF1-associated protein, and RTel have also been shown to play a role in telomere DNA replication [ 66], and their knockdown also causes an increase in fragile telomeres.
ATR protein was found to bind to three regions of FRA3B under conditions of replication stress, and a deficiency of ATR results in a dramatic increase in fragile site breakage [ 45, 46].
However, as the effects of Stn1 knockdown on the cells' proliferative capacity were dramatically enhanced in a 21% oxygen atmosphere, our inability to observe a further increase in fragile telomeres might also be because most cells were senescent and consequently could not enter mitosis.
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"It's a fragile country".
