hEST2, the putative human telomerase catalytic subunit gene, is up- regulated in tumor cells and during immortalization

Cell

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 785-795

  Meyerson, Matthew ^a,b   Counter, Christopher M ^a   Eaton, Elinor Ng ^a   Ellisen, Leif W ^b   Steiner, Philipp ^a   Caddle, Stephanie Dickinson ^a   Ziaugra, Liuda ^a   Beijersbergen, Roderick L ^a   Davidoff, Michael J ^c   Qingyun, Liu ^c   Bacchetti, Silvia ^d   Haber, Daniel A ^b   Weinberg, Robert A ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELOMERE; TUMOR GROWTH;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0030745448     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80538-3     Document Type: Article

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