Telomeres: The beginnings and ends of eukaryotic chromosomes

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 318, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1456-1460

  Zakian, Virginia A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Replication; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA POLYMERASE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; PRIMER RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84861924325     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: 10902422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2012.02.015     Document Type: Review

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