Regulation of telomere length by an N-terminal region of the yeast telomerase reverse transcriptase

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 9103-9114

  Ji, Hong ^a   Platts, Margaret H ^a   Dharamsi, Latif M ^a,b   Friedman, Katherine L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BINDING PROTEIN; KU ANTIGEN; PROTEIN EST2P; PROTEIN KU80; PROTEIN RIF1P; PROTEIN RIF2P; RAP PROTEIN; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDC13P; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TEL1P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMEOSTASIS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; YEAST;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 26444518182     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.20.9103-9114.2005     Document Type: Article

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