Ku86 represses lethal telomere deletion events in human somatic cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 12430-12435

  Wang, Yongbao ^a   Ghosh, Goutam ^a   Hendrickson, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA PK; Homologous recombination; NHEJ; rAAV; t circles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KU86 GENE; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE;

ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DEPENDOVIRUS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE TARGETING; HCT116 CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; TELOMERE; TRANSFECTION;

ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS; MUS;

EID: 68149110347     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903362106     Document Type: Article

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