How Telomerase Reaches Its End: Mechanism of Telomerase Regulation by the Telomeric Complex

Molecular Cell

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-165

  Bianchi, Alessandro ^a   Shore, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RAP1 PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TELOMERASE;

CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TELOMERE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; DNA REPLICATION; HUMANS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 47549086947     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.06.013     Document Type: Review

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