Human telomerase catalyzes nucleolytic primer cleavage

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2171-2180

  Huard, Sylvain ^b   Autexier, Chantal ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME RECONSTITUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETICULOCYTE LYSATE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; TETRAHYMENA; ANIMAL; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL LINE; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TELOMERE;

CILIOPHORA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL LINE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RABBITS; RNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 2342473232     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh546     Document Type: Article

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