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Squamous cell carcinoma arises from highly proliferative basal layer epithelial cells, which normally divide for a short time before detaching from the basement membrane and undergoing terminal differentiation. Basal layer cells in stratified epithelia express the reverse transcriptase known as telomerase. Most human cells do not express telomerase and therefore are subject to loss of telomeric DNA with age due to the inability of lagging strand synthesis to completely replicate chromosomal ends. Late generation telomerase deficient mice exhibit signs of premature aging including reduced function of proliferating cellular compartments. We examined development of squamous cell carcinoma in a telomerase deficient murine background with long and short telomeres. G1 Terc-/- mice (long telomeres) had fewer lymph node metastases, which correlated with increased numbers of apoptotic cells in these tumors compared with wild-type mice. However, G5 Terc-/- mice with short telomeres had increased metastatic tumor burden similar to wild type mice. This increased metastasis correlated with genomic instability and aneuploidy in tumor cells from G5 Terc-/- mice. A number of similarities with human SCC were noted in the mouse model, and dramatic differences in global gene expression profiles were shown between primary and metastatic tumors. We concluded that telomere shortening promotes metastatic tumor development in a Terc null mouse model of head and neck cancer.

Telomere Dysfuction Promotes Metastasis in a TERC Null Mouse Model of Head and Neck Cancer