Tissue-specific alternate splicing of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) influences telomere lengths during human development

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 644-649

  Ulaner, Gary A ^a   Hu, Ji Fan ^a,b   Vu, Thanh H ^a,b   Giudice, Linda C ^a   Hoffman, Andrew R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate splicing; Development; hTERT; Telomerase; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FETUS; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSLATION; SENESCENCE; TELOMERE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART; HUMANS; INTRONS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MODELS, GENETIC; MYOCARDIUM; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0035283896     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0215(200002)9999:9999<::AID-IJC1103>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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