A tale of ends

Victoria Lundblad ()
Additional contact information
Victoria Lundblad: Baylor College of Medicine

Nature, 2000, vol. 403, issue 6766, 149-151

Abstract: The tip of the chromosome — the telomere — has been extensively studied in organisms ranging from yeast to humans. But proteins that regulate its maintenance and replication have not been identified in another model organism, the nematode wormCaenorhabditis elegans, until now. Mutant worms that cannot replicate their telomeres have been identified, and one of the mutated genes, mrt-2, also monitors damaged DNA, providing a link between telomeres and double-stranded DNA breaks.

Date: 2000
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/35003085 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:403:y:2000:i:6766:d:10.1038_35003085

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/35003085

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().