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Structural highlights

Function

TERT_TETTS Catalytic component of telomerase, an essential ribonucleoprotein enzyme that copies new telomeric repeats onto chromosome ends by repetitively synthesizing the short telomere-repeat sequence 5'-TTGGGG-3' using an RNA template component TER (PubMed:10944124, PubMed:15696174, PubMed:16462747, PubMed:17322903, PubMed:20713447). TERT is a reverse transcriptase that adds simple sequence repeats to chromosome ends by copying a template sequence within the RNA component of the enzyme (PubMed:10944124, PubMed:15696174, PubMed:16462747, PubMed:17322903, PubMed:20713447).^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

See Also

• Telomerase 3D structures

References

1. ↑ Miller MC, Liu JK, Collins K. Template definition by Tetrahymena telomerase reverse transcriptase. EMBO J. 2000 Aug 15;19(16):4412-22. PMID:10944124 doi:10.1093/emboj/19.16.4412
2. ↑ Prathapam R, Witkin KL, O'Connor CM, Collins K. A telomerase holoenzyme protein enhances telomerase RNA assembly with telomerase reverse transcriptase. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2005 Mar;12(3):252-7. doi: 10.1038/nsmb900. Epub 2005 Feb 6. PMID:15696174 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb900
3. ↑ Jacobs SA, Podell ER, Cech TR. Crystal structure of the essential N-terminal domain of telomerase reverse transcriptase. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2006 Mar;13(3):218-25. Epub 2006 Feb 5. PMID:16462747 doi:10.1038/nsmb1054
4. ↑ Stone MD, Mihalusova M, O'connor CM, Prathapam R, Collins K, Zhuang X. Stepwise protein-mediated RNA folding directs assembly of telomerase ribonucleoprotein. Nature. 2007 Mar 22;446(7134):458-61. doi: 10.1038/nature05600. Epub 2007 Feb 25. PMID:17322903 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05600
5. ↑ Berman AJ, Gooding AR, Cech TR. Tetrahymena telomerase protein p65 induces conformational changes throughout telomerase RNA (TER) and rescues telomerase reverse transcriptase and TER assembly mutants. Mol Cell Biol. 2010 Oct;30(20):4965-76. doi: 10.1128/MCB.00827-10. Epub 2010 Aug , 16. PMID:20713447 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MCB.00827-10