Pot1, the putative telomere end-binding protein in fission yeast and humans

Science

Volumn 292, Issue 5519, 2001, Pages 1171-1175

  Baumann, Peter ^a   Cech, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DNA; PROTOZOA; YEAST;

HOMOLOGOUS PROTEINS;

PROTEINS;

DNA; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN POT1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; GENE DELETION; GENE LOSS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0035844082     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1060036     Document Type: Article

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