Processing of nontelomeric 3′ ends by telomerase: Default template alignment and endonucleolytic cleavage

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3437-3445

  Melek, Meni ^a   Greene, Eric C ^a   Shippen, Dorothy E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUPLOTES;

DNA; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA CLEAVAGE; NONHUMAN; POLYMENOPHOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDONUCLEASES; EUPLOTES; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 0029895352     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.7.3437     Document Type: Article

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