An SMC-like protein is required for efficient homologous recombination in arabidopsis

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 4505-4512

  Mengiste, Tesfaye ^a   Revenkova, Ekaterina ^c   Bechtold, Nicole ^b   Paszkowski, Jerzy ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Homologous recombination; Mutants; SMC

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; METHYL METHANESULFONATE; MITOMYCIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENS; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0033575731     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.16.4505     Document Type: Article

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