A novel specificity for the primer-template pairing requirement in Tetrahymena telomerase

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1152-1160

  Wang, He ^a   Gilley, David ^a   Blackburn, Elizabeth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosomal healing; De novo telomere addition; Reverse transcriptase; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CATALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; TELOMERASE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0032481419     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.4.1152     Document Type: Article

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