Identification and Characterisation of mRif1: A Mouse Telomere-Associated Protein Highly Expressed in Germ Cells and Embryo-Derived Pluripotent Stem Cells

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 229, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 733-744

  Adams, Ian R ^a   McLaren, Anne ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mouse; mRif1; Pluripotent stem cells; Primordial germ cells; Rif1; Telomere

Indexed keywords

DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MRIF1; PROTEIN MTRF2; PROTEIN RIF1; TELOMERE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROSS LINKING; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GERM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 1842457513     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.10471     Document Type: Article

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