Reverse transcriptase at bacterial telomeres
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Reverse transcriptase at bacterial telomeres.
I n the past two decades, intense efforts have been devoted to uncovering the mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of telomeres in eukaryotic cells. These efforts have led to the identification of an unusual reverse transcriptase (RT), named telomerase, that uses an integral RNA subunit as template to synthesize a short reiterated sequence at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes (Fig. 1A) (...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0406018101