Chromatin regulation and non-coding RNAs at mammalian telomeres

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 186-193

  Schoeftner, Stefan ^a   Blasco, Maria A ^a  

^a Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Silencing; Telomeres; Telomeric chromatin; TelRNA; TERRA

Indexed keywords

MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN SHELTERIN; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 1; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; REVIEW; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77049094890     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.09.015     Document Type: Review

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