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<molecular biology> A DNA polymerase with rather unusual properties that will only elongate oligonucleotides from the telomere and not other sequences. The enzyme contains an essential 159 residue RNA sequence that provides a template for the replication of the G rich telomere sequences (so that the enzyme could in fact be considered a reverse transcriptase).
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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