The Saccharomyces cerevisiae MER3 gene, encoding a novel helicase-like protein, is required for crossover control in meiosis

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 5714-5723

  Nakagawa, Takuro ^a,b   Ogawa, Hideyuki ^a,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Iwate College of Nursing   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crossing over; Helicase; Interference; Meiosis; Recombination

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HELICASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CROSSING OVER; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA HELICASES; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0033569945     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.20.5714     Document Type: Article

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