Article
Role for telomere cap structure in meiosis.
Molecular biology of the cell - 1 Oct 2001
Maddar H, Ratzkovsky N, Krauskopf A
Abstract excerpt
Telomeres, the natural ends of eukaryotic chromosomes, are essential for the protection of chromosomes from end-to-end fusions, recombination, and shortening. Here we explore their role in the process of meiotic division in the budding yeast, Kluyveromyces lactis. Telomerase RNA mutants that cause unusually long telomeres with deregulated structure led to severely defective meiosis. The severity of the meiotic...
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