Ku must load directly onto the chromosome end in order to mediate its telomeric functions

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Lopez, Christopher R ^a   Ribes Zamora, Albert ^a   Indiviglio, Sandra M ^a   Williams, Christopher L ^a   Haricharan, Svasti ^a   Bertuch, Alison A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; HETERODIMER; KU ANTIGEN; PROTEIN SIR4; PROTEIN TLC1; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HIGH AFFINITY DNA BINDING FACTOR, S CEREVISIAE; HIGH AFFINITY DNA-BINDING FACTOR, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIR4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROTECTION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; CHROMOSOME; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METABOLISM; MISSENSE MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 80052323540     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002233     Document Type: Article

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