Caenorhabditis elegans POT-2 telomere protein represses a mode of alternative lengthening of telomeres with normal telomere lengths

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7805-7810

  Cheng, Chen ^a   Shtessel, Ludmila ^a,b   Brady, Megan M ^a,b   Ahmed, Shawn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

PROTECTION OF TELOMERES 2; Telomere maintenance

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA DAMAGE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TUMOR;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; INDOLES; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84861204297     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119191109     Document Type: Article

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