Synergistic actions of Rad51 and Rad52 in recombination and DNA repair

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6665, 1998, Pages 401-404

  Benson, Fiona E ^a   Baumann, Peter ^a   West, Stephen C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 0032556865     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34937     Document Type: Article

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