Identification of yeast mutants with altered telomere structure.
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Identification of yeast mutants with altered telomere structure.
The chromosomes of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae terminate in a tract of simple-sequence DNA [poly(C1-3A)] that is several hundred base pairs long. We describe the identification of mutant yeast strains that have telomeric tracts that are shorter than normal. A genetic analysis of these strains indicates that these short telomeres are the result of single nuclear recessive mutations and th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.83.5.1398