Identification of a new RNA·RNA interaction site for human telomerase RNA (hTR): Structural implications for hTR accumulation and a dyskeratosis congenita point mutation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 6509-6515

  Ren, Xiaojun ^a   Gavory, Gérald ^a   Li, Haitao ^a   Ying, Liming ^a   Klenerman, David ^a   Balasubramanian, Balasubramanian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; MUTAGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

BINDING SITES; DIMERIZATION; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POINT MUTATION; RNA; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TELOMERASE;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0345531140     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg871     Document Type: Article

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