Flexible positioning of the telomerase-associated nuclease leads to preferential elimination of nontelomeric DNA

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1544-1552

  Greene, Eric C ^a   Bednenko, Janna ^a   Shippen, Dorothy E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; REPETITIVE DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; POLYMENOPHOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0031910117     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.3.1544     Document Type: Article

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