Transmembrane protein Sun2 is involved in tethering mammalian meiotic telomeres to the nuclear envelope.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on April 23, 2007

Authors

Johannes Schmitt1, Ricardo Benavente, Didier Hodzic, Christer Höög, Colin L Stewart, Manfred Alsheimer

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Biocenter of the University of Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.

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