Beginning to Understand the End of the Chromosome

Cell

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 273-279

  Cech, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL DIVISION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CILIATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FIBROBLAST; GENE INTERACTION; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA; YEAST;

CILIOPHORA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0842346436     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(04)00038-8     Document Type: Review

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