Studies on the minimal lengths required for DNA primers to be extended by the Tetrahymena telomerase: Implications for primer positioning by the enzyme

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5570-5578

  Baran, Nava ^a   Haviv, Yonit ^a   Paul, Beena ^a   Manor, Haim ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TELOMERASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

CILIOPHORA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0037115823     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf676     Document Type: Review

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