The Unmasking of Telomerase

Structure

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1603-1609

  Legassie, Jason D ^a   Jarstfer, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MOTILITY; CHROMOSOME; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; SACCHAROMYCES; TELOMERASE; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EUKARYOTA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 33846255864     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2006.09.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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