One turn around the nucleosome takes 80 bp of DNA

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For the synthesis of telomere, Only dGTP and dTTP are needed for the activity.

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The telomerase is a large ribonucleoprotein that consists of a templating RNA which is encoded by TLC1 in yeast, hTERC in humans.

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Telomerase protein component with catalytic activity is encoded by EST2 in yeast, hTERT in humans

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The RNA component is typically short 159 bases long in Tetrahymena, and 451 bases long in humans, though 1.3 kb in yeast

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EST proteins regulates number of repeats in RNA component for telomere lengths.

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