Two inactive fragments of the integral RNA cooperate to assemble active telomerase with the human protein catalytic subunit (hTERT) in vitro

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 6207-6216

  Tesmer, Valerie M ^a   Ford, Lance P ^a   Holt, Shawn E ^a,b   Frank, Bryan C ^a   Yi, Xiaoming ^a   Aisner, Dara L ^a   Ouellette, Michel ^a   Shay, Jerry W ^a   Wright, Woodring E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RABBIT; RETICULOCYTE LYSATE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0032803237     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.9.6207     Document Type: Article

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