Specific telomerase RNA residues distant from the template are essential for telomerase function

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3286-3300

  Roy, Jagoree ^a   Fulton, Tracy B ^a   Blackburn, Elizabeth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

K. lactis; Ribonucleoprotein; RNA; Telomerase; Telomere; Yeast

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; YEAST;

KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0032532428     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.20.3286     Document Type: Article

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