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Abstract
Cellular senescence is an important tumor suppression process, and a possible contributor to tissue aging. Senescence is accompanied by extensive changes in chromatin structure. In particular, many senescent cells accumulate specialized domains of facultative heterochromatin, called Senescence-Associated Heterochromatin Foci (SAHF), which are thought to repress expression of proliferation-promoting genes, thereby contributing to senescence-associated proliferation arrest. This article reviews our current understanding of the structure, assembly and function of these SAHF at a cellular level. The possible contribution of SAHF to tumor suppression and tissue aging is also critically discussed.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17544228 PMCID: PMC2755200 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.04.020
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gene ISSN: 0378-1119 Impact factor: 3.688