Expression of mutated Paramecium telomerase RNAs in vivo leads to templating error that resemble those made by retroviral reverse transcriptase

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2887-2894

  Ye, Amanda J ^a   Haynes, W John ^b   Romero, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAL RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; RNA GENE; TELOMERE;

CILIOPHORA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PROTOZOA; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0032940199     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.4.2887     Document Type: Article

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