Template boundary in a yeast telomerase specified by RNA structure

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5467, 2000, Pages 863-867

  Tzfati, Yehuda ^a   Fulton, Tracy B ^a   Roy, Jagoree ^a   Blackburn, Elizabeth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; TELOMERE; YEAST;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; KLUYVEROMYCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, FUNGAL; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0034608073     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5467.863     Document Type: Article

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