Interference footprinting analysis of telomerase elongation complexes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 4224-4237

  Benjamin, Sima ^a   Baran, Nava ^a   Manor, Haim ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFATE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EUKARYOTE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERASE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TETRAHYMENA;

EUKARYOTA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0034076470     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.12.4224-4237.2000     Document Type: Article

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