Telomerase efficiently elongates highly transcribing telomeres in human cancer cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Farnung, Benjamin O ^a   Brun, Catherine M ^a   Arora, Rajika ^a   Lorenzi, Luca E ^a   Azzalin, Claus M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; TELOMERASE; DNA (CYTOSINE 5 ) METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL ELONGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METHYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; STEADY STATE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; CYTOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; TELOMERE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

EUKARYOTA;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84860491777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035714     Document Type: Article

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