Inventory of telomerase components in human cells reveals multiple subpopulations of hTR and hTERT

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 8565-8577

  Xi, Linghe ^a,b   Cech, Thomas R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN TELOMERASE RNA; MONOMER; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEK293 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; RNA; TELOMERASE;

EID: 84905595327     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku560     Document Type: Article

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