Developmentally programmed gene elimination in Euplotes crassus facilitates a switch in the telomerase catalytic subunit

Cell

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 565-576

  Karamysheva, Zemfira ^a   Wang, Libin ^a,b   Shrode, Timothy ^a   Bednenko, Janna ^a,c   Hurley, Leigh Anne ^a   Shippen, Dorothy E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENT; ECTERT 1 GENE; ECTERT 2 GENE; ECTERT 3 GENE; EUPLOTES; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; TELOMERE;

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

EID: 0037806033     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00363-5     Document Type: Article

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