Asparagales telomerases which synthesize the human type of telomeres

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 633-646

  Sýkorová, Eva ^a   Leitch, Andrew Rowland ^b   Fajkus, Jiří ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Asparagales; Evolution; Telomerase; Template region

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGALES; EVOLUTION; TELOMERASE; TEMPLATE REGION;

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GENES; RNA;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACIDS; CLONES; GENES; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ASPARAGALES;

EID: 33646379394     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-005-5091-9     Document Type: Article

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