Telomeric circles: Universal players in telomere maintenance

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1010-1015

  Tomaska, Lubomir ^a   Nosek, Jozef ^a   Kramara, Juraj ^a   Griffith, Jack D ^b  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

COVALENT BOND; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MAMMAL CELL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; TELOMERE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME; GENOME, FUNGAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70349832774     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1660     Document Type: Review

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