Mammalian telomeres end in a large duplex loop

Cell

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 503-514

  Griffith, Jack D ^a   Comeau, Laurey ^a   Rosenfield, Soraya ^a   Stansel, Rachel M ^a   Bianchi, Alessandro ^b,c   Moss, Heidi ^b   De Lange, Titia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033553536     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80760-6     Document Type: Article

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