Saccharomyces cerevisiae recA homologues RAD51 and DMC1 have both distinct and overlapping roles in meiotic recombination

Genes to Cells

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 615-629

  Shinohara, Akira ^a   Gasior, Stephen ^b   Ogawa, Tomoko ^c   Kleckner, Nancy ^d   Bishop, Douglas K ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DMC1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RECA PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSSING OVER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MUTATION; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0031242008     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1997.1480347.x     Document Type: Article

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