Depletion of Ku70/80 reduces the levels of extrachromosomal telomeric circles and inhibits proliferation of ALT cells

Aging

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 395-406

  Li, Baomin ^a   Reddy, Sita ^a   Comai, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; ALT; Cancer; Ku; T circles; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; CIRCULAR DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KU ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECQ HELICASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; WRN PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; TELOMERE;

ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CELL AGING; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECQ HELICASES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TELOMERE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 80052103373     PISSN: 19454589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/aging.100308     Document Type: Article

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