Spontaneous telomere to telomere fusions occur in unperturbed fission yeast cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3056-3067

  Almeida, Hugo ^a   Ferreira, Miguel Godinho ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CTP1 NUCLEASE; NUCLEASE; RAD50 PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SELECTION; INTRON; MARKER GENE; MINICHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; YEAST CELL;

CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; GENE FUSION; NEOPLASMS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84876354681     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1459     Document Type: Article

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