Cloning, sequencing, disruption and phenotypic analysis of uvsC, an Aspergillus nidulans homologue of yeast RAD51

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 254, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 654-664

  Van Heemst, D ^a   Swart, K ^a   Holub, E F ^a   Van Dijk, R ^a   Offenberg, H H ^a   Goosen, T ^a   Van Den Broek, H W J ^a   Heyting, C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aspergillus nidulans; Meiotic mutants; RAD51; Recombination repair; uvsC

Indexed keywords

MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DELETION MUTANT; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MARKER GENE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEIOSIS; METHYL METHANESULFONATE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0030960024     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050463     Document Type: Article

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