Author Manuscript Published OnlineFirst on October 14, 2019; DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-19-0654 Author manuscripts have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication but have not yet been edited. Functional loss of ATRX and TERC activates Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) in LAPC4 prostate cancer cells Mindy K. Graham1, Jiyoung Kim1, Joseph Da1, Jacqueline A. Brosnan-Cashman1, Anthony Rizzo1, Javier A. Baena Del Valle1, Lionel Chia1, Michael Rubenstein4, Christine Davis1, Qizhi Zheng1, Leslie Cope2, Michael Considine2, Michael C. Haffner1, Angelo M. De Marzo1,2,3, Alan K. Meeker1,2,3, and Christopher M. Heaphy1,2* 1 Department of Pathology, 2 Department of Oncology, 3 Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA 4 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA Running Title: Effects of ATRX and hTR loss in prostate cancer *To whom correspondence should be addressed: Christopher M. Heaphy: Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231;
[email protected] Tel. (443) 287-4730; Fax. (410) 592-5158. Keywords: ATRX, TERC, Telomeres, Alternative lengthening of telomeres, Cancer, Prostate cancer, telomerase, gene knockout, CRISPR/Cas Conflicts of Interest: None 1 Downloaded from mcr.aacrjournals.org on September 30, 2021. © 2019 American Association for Cancer Research. Author Manuscript Published OnlineFirst on October 14, 2019; DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-19-0654 Author manuscripts have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication but have not yet been edited. Effects of ATRX and hTR loss in prostate cancer ABSTRACT A key hallmark of cancer, unlimited replication, requires cancer cells to evade both replicative senescence and potentially lethal chromosomal instability induced by telomere dysfunction.