Arabidopsis POT1 associates with the telomerase RNP and is required for telomere maintenance

EMBO Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 3653-3661

  Surovtseva, Yulia V ^a   Shakirov, Eugene V ^a   Vespa, Laurent ^a   Osbun, Nathan ^a   Song, Xiangyu ^a   Shippen, Dorothy E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

G overhang; OB fold; Telomere; TRAP

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TELOMERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POT1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TELOMERIC REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 34547738478     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601792     Document Type: Article

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