Telomeric repeat amplification, without shortening or lengthening of the telomerase products: A method to analyze the processivity of telomerase enzyme

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Szatmari, Istvan ^a   Aradi, Janos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HL-60 CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TELOMERIC REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN HL 60; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS; HELA CELL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TELOMERE;

CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HELA CELLS; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 0035864173     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.2.e3     Document Type: Article

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