EMBO Member's review. Cockayne syndrome: Defective repair of transcription?

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 4155-4162

  Van Gool, Alain J ^a,b   Van Der Horst, Gijsbertus T J ^a   Citterio, Elisabetta ^a   Hoeijmakers, Jan H J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cockayne syndrome; Nucleotide excision repair; Review; Transcription coupled repair; Trichothiodystrophy; Xeroderma pigmentosum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ERCC6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ERCC8 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HELICASE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN;

COCKAYNE SYNDROME; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW; YEAST; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; COCKAYNE SYNDROME; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030854714     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.14.4155     Document Type: Review

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