Fig. 7
Telomere deprotection contributes to replication stress lethality. a Western blots of whole cell extracts from HT1080 6TG cells stably transduced with control, TRF2 shRNA (TRF sh-F) or TRF2 over expression (TRF2OE) vectors. b Representative images of cyto-centrifuged chromosome spreads stained with DAPI (blue), γ-H2AX IF (red) and telomere PNA (green) from control, TRF sh-F or TRF2OE HT1080 6TG cells treated with DMSO or APH. Scale bar represents 10 µm. c, d Quantitation of mitotic telomere DDR foci from Control sh and TRF2 sh-F cells (c) or vector and TRF2OE cells (d) ± DMSO or APH (three biological replicates scoring n = 50 mitotic spreads per replicate compiled in a Tukey box plot, Mann–Whitney test). e Difference in the mean number of mitotic telomeric γ-H2AX foci between HT1080 6TG TRF2 sh-F or TRF2OE cells and their appropriate vector control. These are a different representation of the same data shown in (c, d) (mean ± s.e.m., n = 3 three biological replications, Student’s t-test). f Mitotic duration to cell death in APH treated control, TRF2 sh-F and or TRF2OE cells (three biological replicates scoring ≥267 mitotic death events per condition are shown in a dot plot, mean ± s.e.m., Mann–Whitney test). g Mitotic outcome of control, TRF2 sh-F and TRF2OE cells treated with APH or DMSO (mean ± s.e.m., n = 3 biological replicates of at least 267 mitoses per condition, Fisher’s Exact Test). For all panels, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01. Source data are provided as a Source Data file
