Mre11 modulates the fidelity of fusion between short telomeres in human cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2518-2526

  Tankimanova, Maira ^a   Capper, Rebecca ^a   Letsolo, Boitelo T ^a   Rowson, Jan ^a   Jones, Rhiannon E ^a   Britt Compton, Bethan ^a   Taylor, A Malcolm R ^b   Baird, Duncan M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MRE11 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERE SHORTENING; WILD TYPE;

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TELOMERE;

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 84859371998     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1117     Document Type: Article

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