Transcriptional outcome of telomere signalling

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 491-503

  Ye, Jing ^a   Renault, Valérie M ^b   Jamet, Karine ^c   Gilson, Eric ^a,b,c  

^a SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAP1 PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2;

AGING; BINDING SITE; CANCER CELL; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME; DNA BINDING; DNA DAMAGE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

APOPTOSIS; CELL AGING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING PROTEIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84902797424     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3743     Document Type: Review

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