The biogenesis and regulation of telomerase holoenzymes

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 484-494

  Collins, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; DNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; TELOMERASE;

BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME; CILIATE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME REGULATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TELOMERE; VERTEBRATE; YEAST;

CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOLOENZYMES; HUMANS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 33745862398     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1961     Document Type: Review

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