Telomere functions grounding on TERRA firma

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-36

  Azzalin, Claus M ^a   Lingner, Joachim ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Long noncoding RNA; Telomeres; TERRA

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; LONG NONCODING TELOMERIC REPEAT CONTAINING RNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOMES AND CHROMOSOMAL PHENOMENA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FACE MALFORMATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; DNA REPLICATION; HUMANS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84918549784     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2014.08.007     Document Type: Review

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