Werner syndrome protein suppresses the formation of large deletions during the replication of human telomeric sequences

Cell Cycle

Volumn 11, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3036-3044

  Damerla, Rama Rao ^a   Knickelbein, Kelly E ^a   Strutt, Steven ^a   Liu, Fu Jun ^a   Wang, Hong ^b   Opresko, Patricia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA replication; G quadruplex; Mutagenesis; Telomere; WRN helicase

Indexed keywords

WERNER SYNDROME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTAGENESIS; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

EID: 84865323382     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.21399     Document Type: Article

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