Telomeric RNAs are essential to maintain telomeres

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Montero, Juan José ^a   López De Silanes, Isabel ^a   Granã, Osvaldo ^a   Blasco, Maria A ^a  

^a Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

BIOLOGY; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CHROMOSOME; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; MAINTENANCE; RNA; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME 20Q; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME XP; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DNA DAMAGE; HCT116 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROMOTER REGION; TELOMERE; U2OS CELL LINE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME 20; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; X CHROMOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENETIC LOCI; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; RNA; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84983437543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12534     Document Type: Article

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