Trypanosome telomeres are protected by a homologue of mammalian TRF2

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 5011-5021

  Li, Bibo ^a   Espinal, Amin ^a   Cross, George A M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RAP PROTEIN; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 1; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; EUKARYOTE; GENOME; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE MYB; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERE; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING PROTEIN 2; TRYPANOSOMA;

EUKARYOTA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 20344388067     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.12.5011-5021.2005     Document Type: Article

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