Replication focus-forming activity 1 and the Werner syndrome gene product

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 375-378

  Yan, Hong ^a   Chen, Chin Yi ^a   Kobayashi, Ryuji ^b   Newport, John ^c  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE;

ARTICLE; DNA DENATURATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; WERNER SYNDROME;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECQ HELICASES; REPLICATION PROTEIN A; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; WERNER SYNDROME; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031848284     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/1263     Document Type: Article

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