机构地区: 广州医学院从化学院
出 处: 《自然杂志》 2009年第6期327-331,共5页
摘 要: 美国科学家伊丽莎白.布莱克本、卡萝尔.格雷德和杰克.绍斯塔克三人同时获得2009年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖,这是由于他们发现"染色体是如何被端粒和端粒酶保护的",这一研究成果揭开了人类衰老和肿瘤发生等生理病理现象的奥秘。本文将就端粒和端粒酶的发现、结构和功能及其与人类衰老、癌症的潜在关系等方面做一简要介绍。 The Nobel Prize in Psysiology or Medicine 2009 was awarded to American scientist Elizabeth Blackburn,Carol Greider and Jack Szostak,this is because they found that "chromosome is how the protection of telomere and telomerase",and unveiled the results of this study of human aging and cancer incidence of physiological and pathological phenomena of life.In this paper,telomere and telomerase discovery,structure and function and its close association with human aging,cancer have done a brief introduction.