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Telomerase In Mice

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Watch this remarkable video from ABC Television showing the lab results of two mice.

One was treated with a telomerase suppliment and the other was not. Both mice are the same age and you can see the results of the mouse that was treated showing signs of age reversal.

The mouse’s hair is growing back from where it was once going bald. The grey hairs have been replaced with normal color hair of a younger mouse.

This holds a great deal of promise for human response to telomere suppliment treatments.

Telomerase Polymerase

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differences and similarities in dna polymerase, primase, and telomerase?

name three differences and three similarities between those three

1. DNA Polymerase III Responsible for DNA Replication
Polymerase III is really an aggregate of ten different polypeptides and is referred to as a holoenzyme. The assembled aggregate has a total molecular weight of 760 kDa. The subunits are present in the holoenzyme in equal ratios. There are only 10-15 holoenzyme molecules per cell, and when the holoenzyme binds to the DNA, it remains firmly attached and proceeds along the growing chain until the strand is complete. The holoenzyme is a dimmer with two active sites, one for synthesizing the leading strand and one for extending the lagging strand. How the holoenzyme by passes the previously synthesized strand to get the next primer on the lagging strand is not exactly understood, but it likely involves folding the DNA at the site of synthesis.
2. The Primosome is Responsible for DNA strand initiation.
The primosome is a huge protein composed of 15 subunits responsible for the initiation of each new Okazaki fragment. As mentioned earlier, DNA polymerase can not initiate new strand synthesis, but RNA polymerases can initiate strand synthesis de novo. The primosome accomplishes initiation of strand synthesis by synthesizing a short segment of RNA for the DNA polymerase to use as a primer. The primase component of the primosome is responsible for synthesis of the short RNA fragment. However, it can not act alone; it must be present in the primosome complex.
3. Telomerase
It adds specific DNA sequence repeats (“TTAGGG” in all vertebrates) to the 3′ end of DNA strands in the telomere regions, which are found at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes. This enzyme is active only in germ cells and cancer cells.Embryonic stem cells express telomerase, which allows them to divide repeatedly and form the individual. In adults, telomerase is highly expressed in cells that need to divide regularly (e.g., in the immune system), whereas most somatic cells express it only at very low levels in a cell-cycle dependent manner.
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