Loss of cap structure causes mitotic defect in Tetrahymena thermophila telomerase mutants

Chromosoma

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 429-437

  Petcherskaia, Marina ^a   McGuire, Jennifer M ^a   Pherson, James M ^a   Kirk, Karen E ^a  

^a LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LETHALITY; MICRONUCLEUS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; WILD TYPE;

CILIOPHORA; OXYTRICHA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0037687401     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-003-0233-9     Document Type: Article

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