Human telomerase contains evolutionarily conserved catalytic and structural subunits

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 3109-3115

  Harrington, Lea ^a   Zhou, Wen ^b   McPhail, Timothy ^b   Oulton, Rena ^a   Yeung, David S K ^a   Mar, Vernon ^b   Bass, Michael B ^b   Robinson, Murray O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Reverse transcriptase; Senescence; Telomere

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POLYMENOPHOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EUPLOTES AEDICULATUS; POLYMENOPHOREA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030668722     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.23.3109     Document Type: Article

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