Insights into diseases of human telomerase from dynamical modeling

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 200-211

  Flores, Samuel Coulbourn ^a   Zemora, Georgeta ^b   Waldsich, Christina ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HUMAN TELOMERASE; PARTIAL MODELING; PERSONALIZED MEDICINES; STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

RNA; TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRIBOLIUM; ARTICLE; STATISTICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 84891383277     PISSN: 23356928     EISSN: 23356936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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