Telomeric transcripts stimulate telomere recombination to suppress senescence in cells lacking telomerase

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3377-3382

  Yu, Tai Yuan ^a   Kao, Yu Wen ^b   Lin, Jing Jer ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN THO; RIBONUCLEASE H; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE ASSOCIATED NONCODING TELOMERE REPEAT CONTAINING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL POPULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENESCENCE; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION;

CELL AGING; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84895807392     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307415111     Document Type: Article

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