De novo telomere addition by Tetrahymena telomerase in vitro

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 866-879

  Wang, He ^a   Blackburn, Elizabeth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome healing; de novo telomere addition; Telomeras primer interaction; Telomerase; Tetrahymena

Indexed keywords

DNA; PRIMER DNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MAGNESIUM; SODIUM ACETATE; SPERMIDINE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0031053530     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.4.866     Document Type: Article

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