Oct

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 - telomere and telomerase

written by cail • posted in Theory • 1,483 views • 1 comment

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

* Szostak JW, Blackburn EH. Cloning yeast telomeres on linear plasmid vectors. Cell 1982; 29:245-255. PMID: 6286143
* Greider CW, Blackburn EH. Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts. Cell 1985; 43:405-13. PMID: 3907856
* Greider CW, Blackburn EH. A telomeric sequence in the RNA of Tetrahymena telomerase required for telomere repeat synthesis. Nature 1989; 337:331-7. PMID: 2463488

It is a discovery made from yeast and Tetrahymena.

Update 10-5-2009 10:20 AM: Several iPhone photos from the Nobel Celebration at UCSF (Genentech Hall 1st floor)