Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End (Nobel Lecture)

被引:172
作者
Blackburn, Elizabeth H. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Biochem & Biophys, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA
关键词
DNA; Nobel lecture; telomerase; telomeres; TERMINAL TRANSFERASE; TETRAHYMENA RDNA; SEQUENCE; DNA; HEXANUCLEOTIDE; LENGTH; GENES; LIFE; RNA;
D O I
10.1002/anie.201002387
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
Secrets revealed: The Nobel Prize for Medicine 2009 was awarded for the solution to one of the greatest mysteries of biology: how are chromosomes copied upon cell division and protected from degradation? The answer can be found at the ends of the chromosomes-the telomeres- and in the enzyme that forms them-telomerase. The laureates describe the events leading to the discovery first-hand. © 2010 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
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页码:7405 / 7421
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