Reconstitution of human telomerase activity and identification of a minimal functional region of the human telomerase RNA

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 5928-5935

  Autexier, Chantal ^a   Pruzan, Ronald ^a,b   Funk, Walter D ^b   Greider, Carol W ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b GERON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Human; Micrococcal nuclease; Reconstitution; Ribonucleoprotein; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

CILIOPHORA;

EID: 0029958047     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00979.x     Document Type: Article

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