Minimum length requirement of the alignment domain of human telomerase RNA to sustain catalytic activity in vitro

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 4470-4480

  Gavory, Gérald ^a   Farrow, Mark ^a   Balasubramanian, Shankar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TERMINAL SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 0037109212     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf575     Document Type: Article

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