Normal mammalian cells negatively regulate telomere length by telomere trimming

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 4684-4692

  Pickett, Hilda A ^a,b   Henson, Jeremy D ^a   Au, Amy Y M ^a   Neumann, Axel A ^a   Reddel, Roger R ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TELOMERASE; XRCC3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL DIVISION; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MAMMAL CELL; MITOGENICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 81255209208     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr402     Document Type: Article

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