A suppressor of two essential checkpoint genes identifies a novel protein that negatively affects dNTP pools

Molecular Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 329-340

  Zhao, Xiaolan ^a   Muller, Eric G D ^b   Rothstein, Rodney ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MEC1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAD53 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SML1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ESSENTIAL GENE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LETHAL GENE; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 0032161269     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80277-4     Document Type: Article

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