Yeast Ku protein plays a direct role in telomeric silencing and counteracts inhibition by Rif proteins

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 1123-1126

  Mishra, Krishnaveni ^a   Shore, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOSIS; TELOMERE;

EID: 0033533699     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80483-7     Document Type: Article

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