Structure of the Tetrahymena thermophila telomerase RNA helix II template boundary element

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 816-825

  Richards, Rebecca J ^a   Theimer, Carla A ^a   Finger, L David ^a   Feigon, Juli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; HOLOENZYME; RNA; RNA 23S; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

CILIOPHORA; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA; TELOMERASE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 33644864313     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkj481     Document Type: Article

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