TelNet - a database for human and yeast genes involved in telomere maintenance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The ends of linear chromosomes, the telomeres, comprise repetitive DNA sequences in complex with proteins that protects them from being processed by the DNA repair machinery. Cancer cells need to counteract the shortening of telomere repeats during replication for their unlimited proliferation by reactivating the reverse transcriptase telomerase or by using the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) pathway. The different telomere maintenance (TM) mechanisms appear to involve hundreds of proteins but their telomere repeat length related activities are only partly understood. Currently, a database that integrates information on TM relevant genes is missing.

Description

To provide a resource for studies that dissect TM features, we here introduce the TelNet data

SUBMITTER: Braun DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5960154 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature