Telomerase reverse transcriptase (abbreviated to TERT, or hTERT in humans) is a catalytic subunit of the enzyme telomerase, which, together with the telomerase...
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A reverse transcriptase (RT) is an enzyme used to convert RNA to DNA, a process termed reverse transcription. Reverse transcriptases are used by viruses...
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Drosophila melanogaster lacks telomerase, but instead uses retrotransposons to maintain telomeres. Telomerase is a reverse transcriptase enzyme that carries its...
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HeLa (section Telomerase)
cells. Like many other cancer cells, HeLa cells have an active version of telomerase during cell division, which copies telomeres over and over again. This...
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studied telomeres, and his lab discovered an enzyme, TERT (telomerase reverse transcriptase), which is part of the process of restoring telomeres after...
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TERC serves as a template for telomere replication (reverse transcription) by telomerase. Telomerase RNAs differ greatly in sequence and structure between...
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potentially involved in cerebral development. The deletion of the telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) gene localized in 5p15.33 may contribute to the phenotypic...
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S2CID 4164029. Coffin JM, Fan H (September 2016). "The Discovery of Reverse Transcriptase". Annual Review of Virology. 3 (1): 29–51. doi:10...
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Cancer cell (section Telomerase)
features that make them “immortal” according to some researchers. The enzyme telomerase is used to extend the cancer cell's life span. While the telomeres of...
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oxaloacetate, and ultimately to glucose, in a process that is almost the reverse of glycolysis. The enzymes of the citric acid cycle are located in the...
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classified Retron Diversity-generating retroelement Telomerase reverse transcriptase Reverse transcriptase-related cellular gene Ribozyme Spiegelman's Monster...
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they had been reverse transcribed from any RNA molecule. In contrast to retrotransposons, retroposons never encode reverse transcriptase (RT) (but see...
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DNA. They include reverse transcriptase, which is a viral enzyme involved in the infection of cells by retroviruses, and telomerase, which is required...
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dysplasia (mutations in FoxF1) Mutations in telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) Mutations in telomerase RNA component (TERC) Mutations in the regulator...
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transcriptase but lack LTRs, and are transcribed by RNA polymerase II Short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs) do not encode reverse transcriptase...
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classified Retron Diversity-generating retroelement Telomerase reverse transcriptase Reverse transcriptase-related cellular gene Ribozyme Spiegelman's Monster...
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floor. It is even inferred that LUCA also grew from H2 and CO2 via the reverse incomplete Krebs cycle. Other metabolic pathways inferred in LUCA are the...
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will facilitate or inhibit the activity. Although telomerase has telomerase reverse transcriptase as a catalytic subunit, regulation is accomplished...
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sequence found in the genome of many bacteria species that codes for reverse transcriptase and a unique single-stranded DNA/RNA hybrid called multicopy single-stranded...
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mutation in motif D of the reverse transcriptase domain of the telomerase protein, hTERT, leads to this phenotype. Thus telomerase dosage is important for...
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3-hydroxypropionate/ 4-hydroxybutyrate cycle. The Thermoproteota also use the reverse Krebs cycle while the Methanobacteriati also use the reductive acetyl-CoA...
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modulating telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) expression, United States Patent, 2004 Methods and compositions for modulating telomerase reverse transcriptase...
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