Oligomerization of the telomerase reverse transcriptase from Euplotes crassus

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 4032-4039

  Wang, Libin ^a   Dean, Sierra R ^a   Shippen, Dorothy E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DIMER; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME; CILIATE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; EUPLOTES; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TELOMERE;

CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES CRASSUS; MONEUPLOTES CRASSUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037106337     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf513     Document Type: Article

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