Isolation of a candidate human telomerase catalytic subunit gene, which reveals complex splicing patterns in different cell types

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2011-2019

  Kilian, Andrzej ^a   Bowtell, David D L ^b   Abud, Helen E ^b   Hime, Gary R ^b   Venter, Deon J ^b   Keese, Paul K ^c   Duncan, Emma L ^d   Reddel, Roger R ^d   Jefferson, Richard A ^a  

^a Cambia   (Australia)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^c Institute of Molecular Agrobiology   (Singapore)

^d CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMENOPHOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; EUPLOTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EUPLOTES AEDICULATUS; POLYMENOPHOREA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030681073     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.12.2011     Document Type: Article

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