Telomere biology: Integrating chromosomal end protection with DNA damage response

Chromosoma

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 275-285

  Slijepcevic, Predrag ^a   Al Wahiby, Suliman ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; DNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXCISION REPAIR CROSS COMPLEMENTING PROTEIN 1; GENE PRODUCT; KU ANTIGEN; MRE11 PROTEIN; NIBRIN; PROTEIN MTERC; PROTEIN PARP 2; PROTEIN XPF; RAD50 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD51D PROTEIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE BINDING PROTEIN; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WERNER SYNDROME PROTEIN;

BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EXCISION REPAIR; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CHROMOSOMES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; TELOMERE;

EID: 27844595310     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-005-0338-4     Document Type: Review

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