Differential repression of human and mouse TERT genes during cell differentiation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2618-2629

  Wang, Shuwen ^a   Zhao, Yuanjun ^a   Hu, Chunguang ^a   Zhu, Jiyue ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; NUCLEASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICE; TELOMERASE;

MUS;

EID: 65849142585     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp125     Document Type: Article

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