TALEN gene knockouts reveal no requirement for the conserved human shelterin protein Rap1 in telomere protection and length regulation

Cell Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1273-1280

  Kabir, Shaheen ^a   Hockemeyer, Dirk ^b   de Lange, Titia ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAP1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR NUCLEASE; CHROMATIN; ENDONUCLEASE; SHELTERIN, HUMAN; TELOMERE BINDING PROTEIN; TERF2IP PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DEPLETION; TALEN GENE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN; DEFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84912075249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.10.014     Document Type: Article

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