Telomere length regulation: Getting the measure of chromosome ends

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 591-597

  Shore, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DNA binding; Length regulation; Rap1p; Rif proteins; Sir proteins; Taz1; Telomerase; Telomere; Transcriptional silencing; TRF1

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; TELOMERASE;

AGING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE REPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; RAP GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0030816792     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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