"...telomerase sits poised as a “preassembly” complex, missing a critical molecular subunit. But when the genome has been fully duplicated, the missing subunit joins its companions to form a complete, fully active telomerase complex, at which point telomerase can replenish the ends of eroding chromosomes...immediately after the full telomerase complex has been assembled, it rapidly disassembles to form an inactive “disassembly” complex..."
http://www.salk.edu/...p?press_id=2052
Regulated assembly and disassembly of the yeast telomerase quaternary complex
http://genesdev.cshl...56.114.abstract
This paper seems related to the above, but I am heading out of my depth here.
Involvement of 14-3-3 proteins in nuclear localization of telomerase
http://www.ncbi.nlm....cles/PMC212742/
Now; what the hell are telomerase activators actually doing?