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Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres in Human Cells
1 Jan 2001
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Reddel, R. R., Bryan, T. M., Colgin, L. M., Perrem, K. T. and Yeager, T. R. Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres in Human Cells.Activation of a telomere maintenance mechanism appears to be essential for immortalization. In most human tumors and tumor cell lines, the telomere maintenance mechanism involves the activity of telomerase, a reverse transcriptase holoenzyme that synthesizes telomeric repeat DNA. In some...
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