A novel role for the budding yeast RAD9 checkpoint gene in DNA damage-dependent transcription

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 3912-3922

  Aboussekhra, Abdelilah ^a,b   Vialard, Jorge E ^b   Morrison, Deborah E ^b   De La Torre Ruiz, Maria Angeles ^b   Cernáková, Lubica ^a,c   Fabre, Francis ^a   Lowndes, Noel F ^b  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Checkpoints; DNA repair; RAD9; Transcription; Yeast

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0029739245     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00765.x     Document Type: Article

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