TEL2, an essential gene required for telomere length regulation and telomere position effect in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3094-3105

  Runge, Kurt W ^a,b   Zakian, Virginia A ^a,c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL VIABILITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENT GENE; SPOROGENESIS; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0029954325     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.6.3094     Document Type: Article

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