DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit is not required for dysfunctional telomere fusion and checkpoint response in the telomerase-deficient mouse

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2253-2265

  Maser, Richard S ^a,b   Wong, Kwok Kin ^a   Sahin, Erguen ^a,b   Xia, Huili ^a   Naylor, Maria ^a   Hedberg, H Mason ^a   Artandi, Steven E ^c   DePinho, Ronald A ^a,b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GENE PRODUCT; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; TELOMERASE;

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PKCS GENE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUSION; KNOCKOUT GENE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIG4 GENE; MOUSE; MTERC GENE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; TELOMERE; TESTIS ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA LIGASES; DNA-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TESTIS;

EID: 33947223187     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01354-06     Document Type: Article

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