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Minimum length requirement of the alignment domain of human telomerase RNA to sustain catalytic activity in vitro.
Nucleic acids research - 15 Oct 2002
Gavory Gérald, Farrow Mark, Balasubramanian Shankar
Abstract excerpt
Telomeres are essential for genomic stability and cell viability. Telomerase, the enzyme responsible for telomere maintenance, is composed of a reverse transcriptase protein subunit and an integral RNA component which contains the templating domain. In human telomerase, the template region consists of 11 nt (3'-rCAAUCCCAAUC-5') and comprises an alignment domain (italicised) plus a template sequence encoding the...
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