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Structural features of mouse telomerase RNA are responsible for the lower activity of mouse telomerase versus human telomerase.
The Biochemical journal - 1 Aug 2006
Garforth Scott J, Wu Yan Yun, Prasad Vinayaka R
Abstract excerpt
Human and mouse telomerases show a high degree of similarity in both the protein and RNA components. Human telomerase is more active and more processive than the mouse telomerase. There are two key differences between hTR [human TR (telomerase RNA)] and mTR (mouse TR) structures. First, the mouse telomerase contains only 2 nt upstream of its template region, whereas the human telomerase contains 45 nt. Secondly,...
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