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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 14, 261 - 262 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nsmb0407-261

La sets the tone for telomerase assembly

M Teresa Teixeira1 & Eric Gilson1

  1. M. Teresa Teixeira and Eric Gilson are in the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5239, IFR128, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon cedex 07, France. e-mail: eric.gilson@ens-lyon.fr


The functional assembly of a ciliate telomerase requires ordered RNA conformational changes mediated by a La motif–containing protein. This raises new questions about telomerase biogenesis and the evolutionary origin of the telomerase RNA.

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