Early and late steps in telomere overhang processing in normal human cells: The position of the final RNA primer drives telomere shortening

Genes and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1167-1178

  Chow, Tracy T ^a   Zhao, Yong ^a,b   Mak, Sabrina S ^a   Shay, Jerry W ^a   Wright, Woodring E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Cancer; DNA replication; Okazaki fragment RNA primer; Telomere overhangs

Indexed keywords

PRIMER RNA;

AGING; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; DNA REPLICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CAPPING; RNA PROCESSING; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

DNA REPLICATION; FIBROBLASTS; FORESKIN; G2 PHASE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; RNA; S PHASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84861768586     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.187211.112     Document Type: Article

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