The role of nonhomologous end-joining components in telomere metabolism in Kluyveromyces lactis

Genetics

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1035-1045

  Carter, Sidney D ^a   Iyer, Shilpa ^b,c   Xu, Jianing ^b   McEachern, Michael J ^b   Åström, Stefan U ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MRE11 PROTEIN; NONHOMOLOGOUS END JOINING PROTEIN; PROTEIN KU80; PROTEIN LIG4; RAD50 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FUNGAL METABOLISM; GENE; KLUYVEROMYCES; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TER1 GENE;

DNA LIGASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; KLUYVEROMYCES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS;

EID: 34248996194     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.067447     Document Type: Article

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