A box H/ACA small nucleolar RNA-like domain at the human telomerase RNA 3' end

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 567-576

  Mitchell, James R ^a   Cheng, Jeffrey ^a   Collins, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RNA SEQUENCE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032961170     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.1.567     Document Type: Article

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