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US 8,771,982 B2Granted
Chimeric molecule and nucleic acid encoding same
AssigneeDuke University
InventorsChristopher M. Counter, Blaine N. Armbruster
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Abstract
The present invention relates, in general, to telomeres, and, in particular, to a method or effecting telomere elongation in mammalian cells. The invention further relates to a protein suitable for use in such a method and to nucleic acid sequences encoding same.
Claims14
An isolated nucleic acid sequence encoding a chimeric molecule comprising a polypeptide having telomerase catalytic activity fused to a telomere binding polypeptide wherein said nucleic acid sequence comprises the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1.
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