Rec8p, a meiotic recombination and sister chromatid cohesion phosphoprotein of the Rad21p family conserved from fission yeast to humans

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 3515-3528

  Parisi, Sandro ^a   McKay, Michael J ^b   Molnar, Monika ^a   Thompson, M Anne ^b   Van Der Spek, Peter J ^c,d   Van Drunen Schoenmaker, Ellen ^c   Kanaar, Roland ^c   Lehmann, Elisabeth ^a   Hoeijmakers, Jan H J ^c   Kohli, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d AKZO NOBEL CENTRAL RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SPOROGENESIS;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032910958     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.5.3515     Document Type: Article

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