Yeast telomerase is specialized for C/A-rich RNA templates

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1646-1655

  Förstemann, Klaus ^b   Zaug, Arthur J ^a   Cech, Thomas R ^a   Lingner, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; THYMINE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BUDDING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA CAPPING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

ADENINE; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSINE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0037443874     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg261     Document Type: Review

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