Telomere And Telomerase, Artwork #1 is a photograph by Art For Science which was uploaded on May 12th, 2013.
Telomere And Telomerase, Artwork #1
Telomere and telomerase. Artwork showing the mechanism by which the enzyme telomerase (green) acts on a telomere, the endpoint of deoxyribonucleic... more
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Telomere And Telomerase, Artwork #1
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Art For Science
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Telomere and telomerase. Artwork showing the mechanism by which the enzyme telomerase (green) acts on a telomere, the endpoint of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) found in chromosomes. The telomere is a region of repeated non-coding nucleotides (coloured bars), the function of which is to prevent coding nucleotides being lost during DNA replication. Telomeres shorten over time and this process is thought to play a role in cancer and ageing. Telomerase is a reverse transcriptase that uses an RNA template (pink thread). Nucleotides are added in the sequence TTAGGG (blue, red, green), as shown here.
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