Identification of Human Rap1
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Identification of Human Rap1 Implications for Telomere Evolution
It has been puzzling that mammalian telomeric proteins, including TRF1, TRF2, tankyrase, and TIN2 have no recognized orthologs in budding yeast. Here, we describe a human protein, hRap1, that is an ortholog of the yeast telomeric protein, scRap1p. hRap1 has three conserved sequence motifs in common with scRap1, is located at telomeres, and affects telomere length. However, while scRap1 binds te...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cell
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0092-8674
DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80858-2