Interaction of recombinant Tetrahymena telomerase proteins p80 and p95 with telomerase RNA and telomeric DNA substrates

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 721-733

  Gandhi, Leena ^a   Collins, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

p80; p95; RNA binding proteins; Telomerase; Tetrahymena

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA;

PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0032030840     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.5.721     Document Type: Article

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