Mammalian XRCC2 promotes the repair of DNA double-strand breaks by homologous recombination

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6751, 1999, Pages 397-399

  Johnson, Roger D ^a   Liu, Nan ^b   Jasin, Maria ^a  

^a Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; HAMSTER; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; KANAMYCIN KINASE; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033598437     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/43935     Document Type: Article

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