Deletion of a trypanosome telomere leads to loss of silencing and progressive loss of terminal DNA in the absence of cell cycle arrest

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 872-880

  Glover, Lucy ^a   Alsford, Sam ^a   Beattie, Caroline ^a   Horn, David ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; SIRTUIN; TELOMERASE; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA REPAIR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE DELETION; GENE SILENCING; SIRTUINS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 33847372924     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl1100     Document Type: Article

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