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telomerase reverse transcriptase

biochemistry

Also known as: TERT

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work of Cech

In Thomas Robert Cech
…and his research team discovered telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), the catalytic subunit of an enzyme called telomerase, which is responsible for regulating the length of telomeres. (Telomeres form the end segments of chromosomes.) Four years later his lab also located the “protection of telomeres protein” (POT1) that caps the end…
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