Identification of Kluyveromyces lactis telomerase: Discontinuous synthesis along the 30-nucleotide-long templating domain

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 4961-4970

  Fulton, Tracy Boswell ^a   Blackburn, Elizabeth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0031842099     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.9.4961     Document Type: Article

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