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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 14, 176 - 177 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nsmb0307-176

A common means to an end

Stuart J Haring1 & Marc S Wold1

  1. Stuart J. Haring and Marc S. Wold are in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 3107 MERF, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. e-mail: marc-wold@uiowa.edu


Analyses of telomere-binding proteins show structural and functional conservation with subunits of replication protein A, the canonical single-stranded DNA–binding protein. These studies raise intriguing questions about the structure and general role of DNA binding in telomere length homeostasis.

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