A mutation in the STN1 gene triggers an alternative lengthening of telomere-like runaway recombinational telomere elongation and rapid deletion in yeast

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 8064-8073

  Iyer, Shilpa ^a   Chadha, Ashley D ^a,b   McEachern, Michael J ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; STN1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE LENGTHENING OF TELOMERE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; DNA MODIFICATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; KLUYVEROMYCES; M1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADF2 GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STN1 GENE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE CAPPING; TELOMERE RAPID DELETION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; KLUYVEROMYCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS;

EID: 24344480452     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.18.8064-8073.2005     Document Type: Article

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