Redistribution of silencing proteins from telomeres to the nucleolus is associated with extension of life span in S. cerevisiae

Cell

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 381-391

  Kennedy, Brian K ^a,c   Gotta, Monica ^b   Sinclair, David A ^a   Mills, Kevin ^a   McNabb, David S ^a   Murthy, Mala ^a   Pak, Sally M ^a   Laroche, Thierry ^b   Gasser, Susan M ^b   Guarente, Leonard ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CHROMATIN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER GENE; TELOMERE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030916153     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80219-6     Document Type: Article

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