Mammalian 5′ C-Rich Telomeric Overhangs Are a Mark of Recombination-Dependent Telomere Maintenance

Molecular Cell

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 224-236

  Oganesian, Liana ^a   Karlseder, Jan ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' CYTOSINE; CYTOSINE; EXONUCLEASE; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD52 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XRCC3 PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RAD52 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; X-RAY REPAIR CROSS COMPLEMENTING PROTEIN 3;

ALTERNATIVE LENGTHENING OF TELOMERE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANCER CELL; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; SINGLE TELOMERE LENGTH ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE MAINTENANCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; METABOLISM; MOUSE; RNA INTERFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CYTOSINE; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; EXONUCLEASES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; TELOMERE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 79954474478     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.03.015     Document Type: Article

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