Ku: A multifunctional protein involved in telomere maintenance

DNA Repair

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1215-1226

  Fisher, Timothy S ^a   Zakian, Virginia A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Degradation; Ku; Recombination; Silencing; Telomere

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; KU ANTIGEN;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; TELOMERE;

ARABIDOPSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 27544471936     PISSN: 15687864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.04.021     Document Type: Review

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