The yeast ku heterodimer is essential for protection of the telomere against nucleolytic and recombinational activities

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 831-835

  Polotnianka, Renata M ^a   Li, Jian ^b   Lustig, Arthur J ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0032474732     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70325-2     Document Type: Article

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