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ReviewGenes & development2015

Human telomerase: biogenesis, trafficking, recruitment, and activation.

Jens C Schmidt, Thomas R Cech

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Review in Genes & development, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 170 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
170citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

170 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 304 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Taming Mre11-Rad50 at Telomeres: Convergent Strategies for Chromosome-End Protection Across Evolution.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026
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  6. Extracellular vesicles for delivery of functional telomerase.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2025
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  8. The leaves fall, yet the tree endures.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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110 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jens C SchmidtHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
Thomas R CechHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA thomas.cech@colorado.edu.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USUniversity of Colorado Boulder · US

Funding

TERT Promoter Mutations and Telomerase Reactivation in Cancer CellsR01GM099705 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI CECH, THOMAS ROBERT · 2012 to 2019
$1.4M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Telomerase is the ribonucleoprotein enzyme that catalyzes the extension of telomeric DNA in eukaryotes. Recent work has begun to reveal key aspects of the assembly of the human telomerase complex, its intracellular trafficking involving Cajal bodies, and its recruitment to telomeres. Once telomerase has been recruited to the telomere, it appears to undergo a separate activation step, which may include an increase in its repeat addition processivity. This review covers human telomerase biogenesis, trafficking, and activation, comparing key aspects with the analogous events in other species.

Indexed as

Enzyme ActivationHumansProtein MultimerizationProtein TransportTelomeraseTelomerasebiogenesiscancerrecruitmenttelomerasetelomeretrafficking

Identifiers

PMID26063571
PMCPMC4470279
OpenAlexW1915004688

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