Telomeric circles are abundant in the stn1-M1 mutant that maintains its telomeres through recombination

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 182-189

  Basenko, Evelina Y ^a   Cesare, Anthony J ^b   Iyer, Shilpa ^a   Griffith, Jack D ^b   McEachern, Michael J ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN STN1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE FUNCTION; KLUYVEROMYCES; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA RECOMBINATION; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSLATION; SENESCENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; YEAST CELL;

DNA, CIRCULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; KLUYVEROMYCES; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TELOMERE;

KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS;

EID: 75649152423     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp814     Document Type: Article

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