Werner's syndrome protein (WRN) migrates Holliday junctions and co-localizes with RPA upon replication arrest

EMBO Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 80-84

  Constantinou, Angelos ^a   Tarsounas, Madalena ^a   Karow, Julia K ^b   Brosh, Robert M ^c   Bohr, Vilhelm A ^c   Hickson, Ian D ^b   West, Stephen C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BLOOM SYNDROME PROTEIN; DNA; HELICASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECQ HELICASE; WRN PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA REPLICATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; WERNER SYNDROME;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RECQ HELICASES; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0034231844     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvd004     Document Type: Article

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