Chromosome termini of the monocot plant Othocallis siberica are maintained by telomerase, which specifically synthesises vertebrate-type telomere sequences

Plant Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 484-493

  Weiss Schneeweiss, Hanna ^a   Riha, Karel ^b   Jang, Chang Gee ^a   Puizina, Jasna ^b,d   Scherthan, Harry ^c   Schweizer, Dieter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis type telomeric sequences; FIS; Othocallis siberica; Telomerase; TRAP assay; Vertebrate type telomeric sequences

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CHROMOSOMES; DNA; ENZYMES; PROTEINS;

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHIC BLOCKS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; EXONUCLEASE BAL 31; TELOMERASE;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BRASSICA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRASSICA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LILIACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ASPARAGALES; BRASSICA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; OTHOCALLIS SIBERICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1342269519     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01974.x     Document Type: Article

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