The meiosis-specific Hop2 protein of S. cerevisiae ensures synapsis between homologous chromosomes

Cell

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 375-386

  Leu, Jun Yi ^a   Chua, Penelope R ^a,c   Roeder, G Shirleen ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032493921     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81480-4     Document Type: Article

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