Bloom's syndrome gene suppresses premature ageing caused by Sgs1 deficiency in yeast

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 619-625

  Heo, Seok Jin ^a,b   Tatebayashi, Kazuo ^a   Ohsugi, Itaru ^b   Shimamoto, Akira ^b   Furuichi, Yasuhiro ^b   Ikeda, Hideo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b AGENE Research Institute   (Japan)

^c KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HELICASE; PROTEIN SGS1; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOM SYNDROME; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT STATURE; YEAST CELL;

EID: 0033372999     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00288.x     Document Type: Article

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