Presence of telomeric G-strand tails in the telomerase catalytic subunit TERT knockout mice

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 563-572

  Yuan, Xunmei ^a   Ishibashi, Shun ^b   Hatakeyama, Shinji ^a   Saito, Motoki ^a   Nakayama, Jun Ichi ^a   Nikaido, Rika ^a   Haruyama, Takahiro ^a   Watanabe, Yoshifumi ^a   Iwata, Hijiri ^c   Iida, Mari ^c   Sugimura, Haruhiko ^d   Yamada, Nobuhiro ^b   Ishikawa, Fuyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Biosafety Research Center   (Japan)

^d HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 6544263270     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00284.x     Document Type: Article

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