Telomerase repeat addition processivity is increased at critically short telomeres in a Tel1-dependent manner in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genes and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 2485-2494

  Chang, Michael ^a   Arneric, Milica ^a   Lingner, Joachim ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Processivity; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Tel1; Telomerase; TLC1

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN TEL1; PROTEIN TLC1; RNA; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34948898465     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1588807     Document Type: Article

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