Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein polymerase that maintains telomere ends by addition of the telomere repeat TTAGGG. The enzyme consists of a protein component with reverse transcriptase activity, encoded by this gene, and an RNA component which serves as a template for the telomere repeat. Telomerase expression plays a role in cellular senescence, as it is normally repressed in postnatal somatic cells resulting in progressive shortening of telomeres. Deregulation of telomerase expression in somatic cells may be involved in oncogenesis. Studies in mouse suggest that telomerase also participates in chromosomal repair, since de novo synthesis of telomere repeats may occur at double-stranded breaks. Alternatively spliced variants encoding different isoforms of telomerase reverse transcriptase have been identified; the full-length sequence of some variants has not been determined. Alternative splicing at this locus is thought to be one mechanism of regulation of telomerase activity.蛋白别名为：TERT; EST2; TCS1; TRT; Telomerase reverse transcriptase; HEST2; Telomerase catalytic subunit; Telomerase-associated protein 2; TP2;基因ID为：7015；蛋白质ID:O14746
应用类型
IF，ELISA补充：最优的抗体稀释比例需要基于客户实验进行优化.建议的起始稀释比例如下: IF: 1:200-1:1000, ELISA: 1:10000. Not yet tested in other applications.
免疫原
合成多肽：human TERT around the phosphorylation site of S227.
