The conserved Est1 protein stimulates telomerase DNA extension activity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 41, 2009, Pages 17337-17342

  DeZwaan, Diane C ^a   Freeman, Brian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Telomerase regulation; Telomere biology

Indexed keywords

DNA; EST1 PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CDC13; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CYCLIN B; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RNA; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TELOMERASE;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 70350460022     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905703106     Document Type: Article

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