Essential functions of amino-terminal domains in the yeast telomerase catalytic subunit revealed by selection for viable mutants

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 2863-2874

  Friedman, Katherine L ^a   Cech, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Mutagenesis; Reverse transcriptase; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Telomerase; Telomerase RNA; Unigenic evolution

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TELOMERASE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032699279     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.21.2863     Document Type: Article

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