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Recombination at long mutant telomeres produces tiny single- and double-stranded telomeric circles.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Jun 2005
Groff-Vindman Cindy, Cesare Anthony J, Natarajan Shobhana, Griffith Jack D, McEachern Michael J
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Recombinational telomere elongation (RTE) known as alternate lengthening of telomeres is the mechanism of telomere maintenance in up to 5 to 10% of human cancers. The telomeres of yeast mutants lacking telomerase can also be maintained by recombination. Previously, we proposed the roll-and-spread model to explain this elongation in the yeast Kluveromyces lactis. This model suggests that a very small (...
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