TOR links starvation responses to telomere length maintenance

Cell Cycle

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2268-2271

  Kupiec, Martin ^a   Weisman, Ronit ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gln3; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Starvation; Telomeres; TOR; Wtm1; Yku70; Yku80

Indexed keywords

TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

HUMAN; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STARVATION; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 84862907003     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.20401     Document Type: Review

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