Identification and characterization of sea squirt telomerase reverse transcriptase

Gene

Volumn 400, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 16-24

  Li, Yang ^a   Yates, Joel A ^a   Chen, Julian J L ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chordate; Invertebrate; Telomere; TERT

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERASE; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATES;

ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548022346     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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