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Telomerase and neurons: an unusual relationship
1 Jan 2022
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Most people associate the enzyme telomerase with its role in maintaining telomeres, which is its best-known canonical role. For this important function, two main components are required: the protein telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and the telomerase RNA component. In addition, over the last decades, an ever-growing number of other, non-telomeric, non-canonical functions for the telomerase protein TERT has...
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