Electron microscopic visualization of telomerase from Euplotes aediculatus bound to a model telomere DNA

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 31, 2006, Pages 9624-9631

  Fouché, Nicole ^a   Moon, Ian K ^b   Keppler, Brian R ^b   Griffith, Jack D ^a,b   Jarstfer, Michael B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDERS; BIOCHEMISTRY; DIMERS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FILTRATION; PROTEINS;

EUPLOTES AEDICULATUS; GEL FILTRATION; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

DNA;

APOFERRITIN; DIMER; DNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES AEDICULATUS; GEL FILTRATION; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; EUPLOTES; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES AEDICULATUS;

EID: 33747110274     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi060313s     Document Type: Article

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