Protein complexes at telomeres have been assumed to present an obstacle to the passing replication fork. The observation that the Schizosaccharomyces pombe telomere-binding protein Taz1 is required for replication suggests otherwise.
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Karlseder, J. Telomeric proteins: clearing the way for the replication fork. Nat Struct Mol Biol 13, 386–387 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb0506-386
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