Maintaining the end: Roles of telomere proteins in end-protection, telomere replication and length regulation

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 730, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 12-19

  Stewart, Jason A ^a   Chaiken, Mary F ^a   Wang, Feng ^a   Price, Carolyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CST; Replication; Shelterin; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

CDC31 PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; CONSERVED TELOMERE COMPONENT 1; DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; POT1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RAP1 PROTEIN; SHELTERIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; STN1 PROTEIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TELOMERIC DNA; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 1; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2; TEN1 PROTEIN; TIN2 PROTEIN; TPP1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER CELL; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIVISION; COILED BODY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE DEPROTECTION; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE REPLICATION; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TELOMERE STRUCTURE;

DNA REPLICATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84855490226     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: 09218262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2011.08.011     Document Type: Review

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