NuvA, an Aspergillus nidulans gene involved in DNA repair and recombination, is a homologue of Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD18 and Neurospora crassa uvs-2

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 505-515

  Iwanejko, Lesley ^a,b   Cotton, Catherine ^a,c   Jones, Gary ^a,d   Tomsett, Brian ^a   Strike, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspergillus nidulans; C3HC4 zinc finger motif; DNA repair; nuvA; RAD18; Recombination

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029669942     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-3-505     Document Type: Article

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