Yeast telomerase is capable of limited repeat addition processivity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-101

  Bosoy, Dimitry ^a   Lue, Neal F ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; DEOXYGUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; DNA; RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SYNTHESIS; YEAST; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYGUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME STABILITY; MUTATION; RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERASE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 1242309367     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg943     Document Type: Article

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