Ku complex interacts with and stimulates the Werner protein

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 907-912

  Cooper, Marcus P ^a,b   Machwe, Amrita ^a   Orren, David K ^a   Brosh, Robert M ^a   Ramsden, Dale ^a,c   Bohr, Vilhelm A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exonuclease activity; Ku proteins; Werner syndrome; WRNp

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; EXONUCLEASE; HELICASE; KU ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WERNER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; WERNER SYNDROME;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXONUCLEASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECQ HELICASES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034655912     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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