Telomere length regulation and telomeric chromatin require the nonsense- mediated mRNA decay pathway

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 6121-6130

  Lew, Jodi E ^a   Enomoto, Shinichiro ^a   Berman, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031684850     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.10.6121     Document Type: Article

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