Fine-tuning the chromosome ends: The last base of human telomeres

Cell Cycle

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1467-1470

  Sfeir, Agnel J ^a   Shay, Jerry W ^a   Wright, Woodring E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

End replication problem; Pot1; STELA; Telomere; Terminal nucleotide

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA BASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ACCURACY; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMOSOME; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE FUSION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; T WAVE; TELOMERE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 27744458482     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.4.11.2161     Document Type: Review

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