Telomerase as a possible target for anti
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Chantal Autexier
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Telomeres, the termini of chromosomes, provide essential stability to linear eukaryotic chromosomes. The enzyme telomerase is one mechanism that maintains telomeres, and is activated in 85% of human cancer cells. New studies on peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) that inhibit telomerase have demonstrated t