The telomerase-specific T motif is a restrictive determinant of repetitive reverse transcription by human telomerase

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 447-459

  Drosopoulos, William C ^a   Prasad, Vinayaka R ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME VARIANT; REPETITIVE DNA; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA BINDING; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERASE;

EID: 73549096849     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00853-09     Document Type: Article

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