Roles of the DNA mismatch repair and nucleotide excision repair proteins during meiosis

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 437-449

  Kirkpatrick, D T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA mismatch repair; Meiosis; Nucleotide excision repair; Recombination; Yeast

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE;

BASE MISPAIRING; CROSSING OVER; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; EXCISION REPAIR; MEIOSIS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA LIGASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; PYRIMIDINE DIMERS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 0032920103     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050300     Document Type: Review

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