Telomere maintenance in African trypanosomes
Telomere maintenance is essential for genome integrity and chromosome stability in eukaryotic cells harboring linear chromosomes, as telomere forms a specialized structure to mask the natural chromosome ends from DNA damage repair machineries and to prevent nucleolytic degradation of the telomeric D...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2023.1302557/full |