To understand
how telomerase RNA participates in mechanistic aspects of telomere synthesis, we studied a conserved secondary structure adjacent to the template.
Not exact matches
Voice: The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Harvard's Jack Szostak, Johns Hopkins's Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn at U.C. San Francisco for their work on
how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme
telomerase.
«Our findings have implications for
how to think about the earliest processes that drive cancer and
telomerase as a therapeutic target.
«We identified a motif in the protein component of
telomerase that controls
how the enzyme carries out its activity in vertebrates such as ourselves.»
This model structure of the catalytic portion of
telomerase shows
how the TFLY motif (green) is positioned at the entry of the pocket that guides the RNA template in the interior cavity of the
telomerase ring and were the active site of the enzyme if located for catalysis.
In this webinar, our experts will describe the advances in telomere research as it applies to human health and
how deeper characterization of the
telomerase maintenance process can uncover targets for therapies.
Rao's team used various approaches, including assays of
telomerase activity, measurement of cell growth, and gene expression profiling of TSY - 1 treated cells, to determine
how it acts.
In tomorrow's Cell, researchers describe
how older mice lacking the enzyme
telomerase — which helps protect dividing chromosomes — go prematurely grey and begin to lose their fur.
How does
telomerase manage to bypass the protective function of telomeres?
Learning
how to control these switches could allow researchers to turn
telomerase activity up in aging cells or down in cancer cells.
He studies
how structural changes to chromosomes impact gene expression and cell fate with a focus telomere,
telomerase, and chromosomal stability, epigenetic proteins, and the role of the SOSS complex in DNA damage repair.
Lundblad's group has engineered yeast cells that lack
telomerase, to study
how cells respond to eroding telomeres when
telomerase is not present to counter-balance.
Structural and biochemical characterization of these factors, both in isolation and in complex with one another will facilitate our understanding of
how the proper function of these factors impacts
telomerase function and cell proliferation.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2009 for discovering
how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme
telomerase, which repairs and rebuilds them.
Do you know
how significant this
telomerase activity is?