Functional diversification of yeast telomere associated protein, Rif1, in higher eukaryotes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes at the end of linear eukaryotic chromosomes which maintain the genome integrity by regulating telomere length, preventing recombination and end to end fusion events. Multiple proteins associate w...

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Main Authors: Sreesankar Easwaran, Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, Bharathi Vellaichamy, Mishra Rakesh K, Mishra Krishnaveni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-06-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/13/255