Ku interacts with telomerase RNA to promote telomere addition at native and broken chromosome ends

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 2384-2395

  Stellwagen, Anne E ^a   Haimberger, Zara W ^a   Veatch, Joshua R ^a   Gottschling, Daniel E ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Ku; RNA protein interaction; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; KU ANTIGEN; RNA; TELOMERASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHOMOLOGOUS END JOINING PATHWAY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH; YEAST;

ALLELES; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0141525391     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1125903     Document Type: Article

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