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Telomerase as a DNA-dependent DNA polymerase.
Biochemistry - 1 Nov 2005
Legassie Jason D, Jarstfer Michael B
Abstract excerpt
Telomerase is a specialized reverse transcriptase, which catalyzes the addition of telomeric repeats to the 3' ends of linear chromosomes using its integral RNA subunit as the template. An active Tetrahymena thermophila telomerase complex can be reconstituted in vitro from two essential components, tTERT, the catalytic protein subunit, and tTR, the RNA subunit. While the sequence specificity of telomerase has...
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