Different role of functional domains of hTR in DNA binding to telomere and telomerase reconstruction

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-132

  Yeo, M ^a   Rha, S Y ^a   Jeung, H C ^a   Shen, X H ^a   Yang, S H ^a   An, S W ^a   Roh, J K ^a   Chung, H C ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CR4 5; hTERT; hTR; Pseudoknot; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TELOMERE;

BINDING SITES; DNA; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 11144302745     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.11.058     Document Type: Article

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