Telomerase limits the extent of base pairing between template RNA and telomeric DNA

EMBO Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 361-366

  Förstemann, Klaus ^a,b   Lingner, Joachim ^a  

^a SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimethyl sulphate; Reverse transcriptase; Telomerase reaction cycle; Telomerase RNA structure

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFATE; DNA FRAGMENT; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA METHYLATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YEAST;

BASE PAIRING; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SULFURIC ACID ESTERS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 17644372030     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400374     Document Type: Article

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