Getting to the end: Telomerase access in yeast and humans

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 948-959

  Vega, Leticia R ^a   Mateyak, Maria K ^a   Zakian, Virginia A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; TELOMERASE;

BUDDING; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TELOMERE; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEOLUS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0345169051     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1256     Document Type: Review

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