RNaseH1 regulates TERRA-telomeric DNA hybrids and telomere maintenance in ALT tumour cells

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Arora, Rajika ^a   Lee, Yongwoo ^a   Wischnewski, Harry ^a   Brun, Catherine M ^a   Schwarz, Tobias ^a   Azzalin, Claus M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA HYBRID; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; REPLICATION FACTOR A; RIBONUCLEASE H; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TELOMERIC REPEAT CONTAINING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; NUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEASE HI; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TELOMERASE;

DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; PROTEIN; TUMOR;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; EXCISION REPAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HEK293 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; METABOLISM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPLICATION PROTEIN A; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84923247676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6220     Document Type: Article

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