Structural basis of template-boundary definition in Tetrahymena telomerase

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 883-888

  Jansson, Linnea I ^a   Akiyama, Ben M ^b   Ooms, Alexandra ^a   Lu, Cheng ^a   Rubin, Seth M ^a   Stone, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TELOMERASE RNA;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA BINDING; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; CHEMISTRY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA; TELOMERASE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 84947910284     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3101     Document Type: Article

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