The Telomere Capping Complex CST Has an Unusual Stoichiometry, Makes Multipartite Interaction with G-Tails, and Unfolds Higher-Order G-Tail Structures

Neal F. Lue; Ruobo Zhou; Lidia Chico; Ninghui Mao; Olga Steinberg-Neifach; Taekjip Ha

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003145

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The Telomere Capping Complex CST Has an Unusual Stoichiometry, Makes Multipartite Interaction with G-Tails, and Unfolds Higher-Order G-Tail Structures

Neal F. Lue ,

* E-mail: nflue@med.cornell.edu (NFL); tjha@illinois.edu (TH)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, W. R. Hearst Microbiology Research Center, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Ruobo Zhou,

Affiliations Department of Physics and Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Lidia Chico,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, W. R. Hearst Microbiology Research Center, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Ninghui Mao,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, W. R. Hearst Microbiology Research Center, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Olga Steinberg-Neifach,

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, W. R. Hearst Microbiology Research Center, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Hostos Community College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Taekjip Ha

* E-mail: nflue@med.cornell.edu (NFL); tjha@illinois.edu (TH)

Affiliations Department of Physics and Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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The Telomere Capping Complex CST Has an Unusual Stoichiometry, Makes Multipartite Interaction with G-Tails, and Unfolds Higher-Order G-Tail Structures

Neal F. Lue,
Ruobo Zhou,
Lidia Chico,
Ninghui Mao,
Olga Steinberg-Neifach,
Taekjip Ha

Published: January 3, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003145

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