Ku acts in a unique way at the mammalian telomere to prevent end joining

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 2807-2812

  Hsu, Hsin Ling ^a   Gilley, David ^a   Galande, Sanjeev A ^a   Prakash Hande, M ^b   Allen, Beth ^c   Kim, Sahn Ho ^a   Li, Gloria C ^d   Campisi, Judith ^a   Kohwi Shigematsu, Terumi ^a   Chen, David J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ku; Telomere; TRF1

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; KU ANTIGEN; PROTEIN KU 80; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA BINDING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; FIBROBLAST; GENE FUSION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; TELOMERE; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING PROTEIN 1;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034669104     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.844000     Document Type: Article

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