Unique C. elegans telomeric overhang structures reveal the evolutionarily conserved properties of telomeric DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 4733-4745

  Školáková, Petra ^a   Foldynová Trantírková, Silvie ^b,c   Bednářová, Klára ^a,b   Fiala, Radovan ^b   Vorlíčková, Michaela ^a,b   Trantírek, Lukáš ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TELOMERIC DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' G RICH TELOMERIC OVERHANG; 5' C RICH TELOMERIC OVERHANG; ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FOLDING; DNA STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TELOMERE;

EID: 84936797859     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv296     Document Type: Article

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