Telomerase RNA component

TERC
Identifiers
AliasesTERC, DKCA1, PFBMFT2, SCARNA19, TR, TRC3, hTR, Telomerase RNA component, TER
External IDsOMIM: 602322; GeneCards: TERC; OMA:TERC - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

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RefSeq (protein)

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Location (UCSC)Chr 3: 169.76 – 169.77 Mbn/a
PubMed search[2]n/a
Wikidata
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Vertebrate telomerase RNA
Identifiers
SymbolTelomerase-vert
RfamRF00024
Other data
RNA typeGene
Domain(s)Eukaryote; Virus
PDB structuresPDBe
Ciliate telomerase RNA
Identifiers
SymbolTelomerase-cil
RfamRF00025
Other data
RNA typeGene
Domain(s)Eukaryote
PDB structuresPDBe
Saccharomyces cerevisiae telomerase RNA
Identifiers
SymbolSacc_telomerase
RfamRF01050
Other data
RNA typeGene
Domain(s)Eukaryote
PDB structuresPDBe

Telomerase RNA component, also known as TR, TER or TERC, is an ncRNA found in eukaryotes that is a component of telomerase, the enzyme used to extend telomeres.[3][4] TERC serves as a template for telomere replication (reverse transcription) by telomerase. Telomerase RNAs differ greatly in sequence and structure between vertebrates, ciliates and yeasts, but they share a 5' pseudoknot structure close to the template sequence. The vertebrate telomerase RNAs have a 3' H/ACA snoRNA-like domain.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000277925Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. ^ Feng J, Funk WD, Wang SS, Weinrich SL, Avilion AA, Chiu CP, et al. (September 1995). "The RNA component of human telomerase". Science. 269 (5228): 1236–41. Bibcode:1995Sci...269.1236F. doi:10.1126/science.7544491. PMID 7544491. S2CID 9440710.
  4. ^ Jády BE, Richard P, Bertrand E, Kiss T (February 2006). "Cell cycle-dependent recruitment of telomerase RNA and Cajal bodies to human telomeres". Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17 (2): 944–54. doi:10.1091/mbc.E05-09-0904. PMC 1356602. PMID 16319170.
  5. ^ McCormick-Graham M, Romero DP (April 1995). "Ciliate telomerase RNA structural features". Nucleic Acids Research. 23 (7): 1091–7. doi:10.1093/nar/23.7.1091. PMC 306816. PMID 7739888.
  6. ^ Lingner J, Hendrick LL, Cech TR (August 1994). "Telomerase RNAs of different ciliates have a common secondary structure and a permuted template". Genes & Development. 8 (16): 1984–98. doi:10.1101/gad.8.16.1984. PMID 7958872.
  7. ^ Theimer CA, Feigon J (June 2006). "Structure and function of telomerase RNA". Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 16 (3): 307–18. doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2006.05.005. PMID 16713250.