How shelterin protects mammalian telomeres

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue , 2008, Pages 301-334

  Palm, Wilhelm ^a,b   De Lange, Titia ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATM; ATR; Cancer; HR; NHEJ

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; ATR PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; RAP1 PROTEIN; SHELTERIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 1; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 46249125488     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.41.110306.130350     Document Type: Review

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