Direct involvement of the TEN domain at the active site of human telomerase

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1774-1788

  Jurczyluk, Julie ^a,b   Nouwens, Amanda S ^a,b,e   Holien, Jessica K ^c   Adams, Timothy E ^d   Lovrecz, George O ^d   Parker, Michael W ^c   Cohen, Scott B ^a,b   Bryan, Tracy M ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT'S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL LINE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TELOMERASE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 79953158232     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1083     Document Type: Article

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