DNA polymerase ε catalytic domains are dispensable for DNA replication, DNA repair, and cell viability

Molecular Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 679-685

  Kesti, Tapio ^a   Flick, Karin ^a   Keränen, Sirkka ^b   Syväoja, Juhani E ^a   Wittenberg, Curt ^a,c  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; FUNGAL DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; YEAST; ALLELE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

ALLELES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA POLYMERASE II; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; YEASTS;

EID: 0032587610     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80361-5     Document Type: Article

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