Arabidopsis telomerase takes off by uncoupling enzyme activity from telomere length maintenance in space.
Barcenilla BB, Meyers AD, Castillo-González C, Young P, Min JH, Song J, Phadke C, Land E, Canaday E, Perera IY, Bailey SM, Aquilano R, Wyatt SE, Shippen DE.
Barcenilla BB, et al.
Nat Commun. 2023 Nov 29;14(1):7854. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41510-4.
Nat Commun. 2023.
PMID: 38030615
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While plants represent an essential component of future long-duration space travel, the impacts of spaceflight on plant telomeres and telomerase have not been examined. Here we report on the telomere dynamics of Arabidopsis thaliana grown aboard the International Space Sta …
While plants represent an essential component of future long-duration space travel, the impacts of spaceflight on plant telomeres and …