Yeast Rad55 and Rad57 proteins form a heterodimer that functions with replication protein A to promote DNA strand exchange by Rad51 recombinase

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1111-1121

  Sung, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

RAD51; Rad55 Rad57 complex; RccA; recombination; S. cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN A; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030995362     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.9.1111     Document Type: Article

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