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Verrocchio, a Drosophila OB fold-containing protein, is a component of the terminin telomere-capping complex.
Genes & development - 1 Aug 2010
Raffa Grazia D, Raimondo Domenico, Sorino Cristina, Cugusi Simona, Cenci Giovanni, Cacchione Stefano, Gatti Maurizio, Ciapponi Laura
Abstract excerpt
Drosophila telomeres are elongated by transposition of specialized retroelements rather than telomerase activity, and are assembled independently of the terminal DNA sequence. Drosophila telomeres are protected by terminin, a complex that includes the HOAP (Heterochromatin Protein 1/origin recogn...
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