The meiosis-specific recombinase hDmc1 forms ring structures and interacts with hRad51

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 6552-6560

  Masson, Jean Yves ^a   Davies, Adelina A ^a   Hajibagheri, Nasser ^a   Van Dyck, Eric ^a   Benson, Fiona E ^a   Stasiak, Alicja Z ^b   Stasiak, Andrzej ^b   West, Stephen C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

hDmc1; hRad51; Meiotic recombination; Recombinases; Ring structures

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HETERODUPLEX; NUCLEOPROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TESTIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0033571226     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.22.6552     Document Type: Article

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