Positional cloning of the Drosophila melanogaster mei-9 gene, the putative homolog of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD1 gene

Mutation Research - DNA Repair

Volumn 364, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-215

  Araj, Houmam ^a,b   Smith, P Dennis ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Drosophila; Mei 9; Positional cloning; RAD1; Saccharomyces

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030566903     PISSN: 09218777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8777(96)00034-1     Document Type: Article

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