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SUBMITTER: Miracco EJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3984607 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miracco Edward J EJ Jiang Jiansen J Cash Darian D DD Feigon Juli J
Current opinion in structural biology 20140204
Telomerase is the ribonucleoprotein (RNP) reverse transcriptase responsible for synthesizing the 3' ends of linear chromosomes. It plays critical roles in tumorigenesis, cellular aging, and stem cell renewal. The past two years have seen exciting progress in determining telomerase holoenzyme architecture and the structural basis of telomerase activity. Notably, the first electron microscopy structures of telomerase were reported, of the Tetrahymena thermophila telomerase holoenzyme and a human t ...[more]