Expression and nuclear localization of BLM, a chromosome stability protein mutated in Bloom's syndrome, suggest a role in recombination during meiotic prophase

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 663-672

  Moens, Peter B ^a   Freire, Raimundo ^b,c   Tarsounas, Madalina ^a,d   Spyropoulos, Barbara ^a   Jackson, Stephen P ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^d IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BLM; Bloom's syndrome; Checkpoint control; DMC1; Immunoelectron microscopy; Immunofluorescence; Meiosis; RAD51; Recombination; RecQ; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; HELICASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOM SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BLOOM SYNDROME; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROPHASE; RABBITS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RECQ HELICASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034009557     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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