bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/725366; this version posted August 5, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. APOBEC3B-dependent kataegis and TREX1-driven chromothripsis in telomere crisis John Maciejowski1,2,*, **, Aikaterini Chatzipli3,*, Alexandra Dananberg1, Titia de Lange2,**, Peter J. Campbell3,** 1Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; 2Laboratory for Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA; 3Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK Keywords: telomere crisis, chromothripsis, kataegis, TREX1, APOBEC3B, dicentric chromosome *Equal contribution **Co-corresponding authors: John Maciejowski:
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[email protected] !1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/725366; this version posted August 5, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Chromothripsis and kataegis are frequently observed in cancer and can arise from telomere crisis, a period of genome instability during tumorigenesis when depletion of the telomere reserve generates unstable dicentric chromosomes1–5. Here we report on the mechanism underlying chromothripsis and kataegis using an in vitro telomere crisis model.