Telomerase RNA Accumulates in Cajal Bodies in Human Cancer Cells

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-90

  Zhu, Yusheng ^a   Tomlinson, Rebecca L ^a   Lukowiak, Andrew A ^a   Terns, Rebecca M ^a   Terns, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COILED BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COILED BODIES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; RNA; TELOMERASE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0346099349     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E03-07-0525     Document Type: Article

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