Functional importance of telomerase pseudoknot revealed by single-molecule analysis

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

Volumn 108, Issue 51, 2011, Pages 20339-20344

  Mihalusova, Mariana ^a   Wu, John Y ^a   Zhuang, Xiaowei ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOENZYME; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE PSEUDOKNOT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA SEQUENCE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 84862907770     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017686108     Document Type: Article

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