UbcD1, a Drosophila ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme required for proper telomere behavior

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 863-875

  Cenci, Giovanni ^a   Rawson, Robert B ^b   Belloni, Giorgio ^a   Castrillon, Diego H ^b   Tudor, Mark ^a   Petrucci, Romano ^a   Goldberg, Michael L ^c   Wasserman, Steven A ^b   Gatti, Maurizio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; telomere behavior; ubiquitin conjugating enzymes

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; DROSOPHILA; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TELOMERE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030907252     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.7.863     Document Type: Article

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