Biochemical properties of Trypanosoma cruzi telomerase

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 5214-5222

  Muñoz, Denise P ^a,b   Collins, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; TELOMERASE; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; NUCLEOTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 4944229060     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh864     Document Type: Article

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