Telomere end-binding proteins control the formation of G-quadruplex DNA structures in vivo

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 847-854

  Paeschke, Katrin ^a   Simonsson, Tomas ^b   Postberg, Jan ^a   Rhodes, Daniela ^b   Lipps, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GUANINE DERIVATIVE; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA; TELOMERE END BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CILIOPHORA; DNA; GUANINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

CILIOPHORA;

EID: 27144451010     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb982     Document Type: Article

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