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Genomes and Genes | F B JohnsonSummaryAffiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Country: USA Publications
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Telomeres, the nucleolus and agingF B Johnson
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
Curr Opin Cell Biol 10:332-8. 1998..The accumulation of ribosomal DNA circles is a cause of aging in this organism. The possible relevance of this mechanism to human aging is also being considered...
Dyskeratosis congenita, telomeres and human ageingR A Marciniak
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Trends Genet 16:193-5. 2000....
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae WRN homolog Sgs1p participates in telomere maintenance in cells lacking telomeraseF B Johnson
Department of Biology, 68-280 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
EMBO J 20:905-13. 2001..Our findings indicate that Sgs1p and WRN function in telomere maintenance, and suggest that telomere defects contribute to the pathogenesis of WS and perhaps other RecQ helicase diseases...
Molecular biology of agingF B Johnson
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
Cell 96:291-302. 1999
Association of the Bloom syndrome protein with topoisomerase IIIalpha in somatic and meiotic cellsF B Johnson
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
Cancer Res 60:1162-7. 2000..Thus, mechanisms by which RecQ helicases and topoisomerase III proteins cooperate to maintain genomic stability in model organisms likely apply to humans...
Nucleolar localization of the Werner syndrome protein in human cellsR A Marciniak
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95:6887-92. 1998..Understanding the function of WRN in these organisms of vastly differing lifespan may yield new insights into the mechanisms of lifespan determination...
