title: Everything you ever wanted to know about Saccharomyces cerevisiae telomeres: beginning to end.
abstract: The mechanisms that maintain the stability of chromosome ends have broad impact on genome integrity in all eukaryotes. Budding yeast is a premier organism for telomere studies. Many fundamental concepts of telomere and telomerase function were first established in yeast and then extended to other organisms. We present a comprehensive review of yeast telomere biology that covers capping, replication, recombination, and transcription. We think of it as yeast telomeres--soup to nuts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Infectiology, RNA-Group, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
authors.forename: Raymund J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Wellinger
authors.forename: Virginia A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Zakian
mesh_terms: D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D016615:Telomere / Q000502:physiology*