Developmentally programmed assembly of higher order telomerase complexes with distinct biochemical and structural properties

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 2921-2931

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

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome healing; Euplotes crassus; Holoenzyme; RNA footprinting; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; POLYMENOPHOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

EUPLOTES CRASSUS;

EID: 0032530487     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.18.2921     Document Type: Article

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