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Tissue-specific expression of telomerase reverse transcriptase gene variants in Nicotiana tabacum.
Planta - 1 Mar 2017
Jurečková Jana Fišerová, Sýkorová Eva, Hafidh Said, Honys David, Fajkus Jiří, Fojtová Miloslava
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MAIN CONCLUSION: In tobacco, three sequence variants of the TERT gene have been described. We revealed unbalanced levels of TERT variant transcripts in vegetative tobacco tissues and enhanced TERT transcription and telomerase activity in reproductive tissues. Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex responsible for the maintenance of telomeres, structures delimiting ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. In the...
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