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Functional diversity of human protection of telomeres 1 isoforms in telomere protection and cellular senescence.
Cancer research - 15 Dec 2007
Yang Qin, Zhang Ran, Horikawa Izumi, Fujita Kaori, Afshar Yalda, Kokko Antti, Laiho Päivi, Aaltonen Lauri A, Harris Curtis C
Abstract excerpt
Protection of telomeres 1 (POT1) proteins in various organisms bind telomeres and regulate their structure and function. In contrast to mice carrying two distinct POT1 genes encoding two POT1 proteins (POT1a and POT1b), humans have the single POT1 gene. In addition to full-length POT1 protein (variant v1), the human POT1 gene encodes four other variants due to alternative RNA splicing (variants v2, v3, v4, and...
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