The clustering of telomeres and colocalization with Rap1, Sir3, and Sir4 proteins in wild-type Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1349-1363

  Gotta, Monica ^a   Laroche, Thierry ^a   Formenton, Andrea ^a   Maillet, Laurent ^c   Scherthan, Harry ^b   Gasser, Susan M ^a  

^a SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b Universität Kaiserslauten ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL MUTANT; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE; YEAST CELL;

EID: 0029820640     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.134.6.1349     Document Type: Article

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