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Assessment of telomere length in hematopoietic interphase cells using in situ hybridization and digital fluorescence microscopy

✍ Scribed by E. S. D. De Pauw; N. P. Verwoerd; N. Duinkerken; R. Willemze; A. K. Raap; W. E. Fibbe; H. J. Tanke

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 176 KB
Volume: 32
Category: Article
ISSN: 0196-4763
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0320(19980701)32:3<163::aid-cyto1>3.0.co;2-l

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✦ Synopsis

Telomeres are G/C-rich repetitive DNA sequences at the end of all eukaryotic chromosomes. The loss of telomeric repeat sequences during cell divisions has been proposed as a possible mechanism for cell senescence. The standard procedure for measurement of telomere length is Southern blot (SB) hybridization with a telomere-specific probe. However, in using this technique no information can be obtained on variation in telomeric fragments due to interchromosomal, intrachromosomal, and intercellular differences. Lansdorp et al. (Hum Mol Genet 5:685-691, 1996) developed a method to measure individual telomeres, using in situ hybridization on metaphase chromosomes, employing peptide nucleic acid (PNA) probes and digital fluorescence microscopy. In this paper we describe a method that can be used to assess telomeric length in interphase cells. An algo-rithm was developed to measure the total intranuclear fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) signal, which features accurate correction for the local autofluorescence. Application of this methodology to samples of fetal liver, umbilical cord blood, and adult bone marrow cells showed a gradual decrease of average telomeric length. Southern blot analysis and PNA FISH measurements on chromosomes in the same samples showed similar results. Advantages of interphase measurements include the possibility of studying nonproliferating cells, thus avoiding selection and cell culturing.

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