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Conserved nucleoprotein structure at the ends of vertebrate and invertebrate chromosomes.
14 Mar 1995
Abstract excerpt
Eukaryotic chromosomes terminate with telomeres, nucleoprotein structures that are essential for chromosome stability. Vertebrate telomeres consist of terminal DNA tracts of sequence (TTAGGG)n, which in rat are predominantly organized into nucleosomes regularly spaced by 157 bp. To test the hypothesis that telomeres of other animals have nucleosomes, we compared telomeres from eight vertebrate tissues and cell...
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