A recombination repair gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, rhp57, is a functional homolog of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD57 gene and is phylogenetically related to the human XRCC3 gene

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1451-1461

  Tsutsui, Yasuhiro ^a   Morishita, Takashi ^a   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^a,b   Toh, Hiroyuki ^c   Shinagawa, Hideo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c BIOMOL ENG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, LETHAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0034045009     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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