Chimeric molecule and nucleic acid encoding same

摘要

The present invention relates, in general, to telomeres, and, in particular, to a method or effecting telomere elongation in mammalian cells. The invention further relates to a protein suitable for use in such a method and to nucleic acid sequences encoding same.

主权项

1. An isolated nucleic acid sequence encoding a chimeric molecule comprising a polypeptide having telomerase catalytic activity fused to a telomere binding polypeptide wherein said nucleic acid sequence comprises the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1.