Put on your thinking cap: G-quadruplexes, helicases, and telomeres

Aging

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 332-335

  Brosh Jr , Robert M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; HELICASE;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EDITORIAL; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA HELICASES; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

EID: 80052096061     PISSN: 19454589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/aging.100307     Document Type: Note

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