摘要正常细胞体外培养时,表现为有限生长特性,经一定的细胞倍增次数后,失去了对促分裂因子刺激的反应,不可逆地失去增殖能力而停止分裂,细胞开始衰老的历程.目前认为染色体末端(端粒)的缺失会使细胞逐渐失去增殖能力,导致细胞的衰老和死亡.人端粒酶催化亚单位(hTERT)可以激活端粒酶的活性,延长染色体末端DNA,维持基因组的稳定.端粒、端粒酶、hTERT的发现为细胞衰老的研究提供了新的思路,同时也应用于永生化细胞系的建立,特别是在组织工程种子细胞生物性能研究和细胞库的建立中将发挥重要作用.

abstractsNormal cells have limited proliferation ability.After certain cycles of proliferation,they will lose the response ability to growth factors and finally cease division and start the course of aging. In current opinion,lacking of the terminal end of a chromosome(telomere)is the cause for cells to loss the proliferation ability and leads cells to aging and death.The human telomerase catalytic subunit 1(hTERT)can activate telomemse which prolong DNAs of the terminal end of chmmosome and help cells gain genomic stabilization.The discoveries of telomere,telomerase and hTERT provide new idea for studying of cell aging and the findings are also applied in the establishment of immortal cell line. Also they may play an important role in the studv of biological feature of seed cell in tissue engineering and the establishment of cell bank.