Evolution of the RECQ family of helicases: A drosophila homolog, Dmblm, is similar to the human Bloom syndrome gene

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1027-1039

  Kusano, Kohji ^a   Berres, Mark E ^a   Engels, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLOOM SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WERNER SYNDROME; YEAST;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOOM SYNDROME; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECQ HELICASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; HOMO SAPIENS; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; METAZOA; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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