Characterization of mec1 kinase-deficient mutants and of new hypomorphic mec1 alleles impairing subsets of the DNA damage response pathway

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 3913-3925

  Paciotti, Vera ^a   Clerici, Michela ^a   Scotti, Maddalena ^a   Lucchini, Giovanna ^a   Longhese, Maria Pia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL KINASE; PROTEIN MEC1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0035019655     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.12.3913-3925.2001     Document Type: Article

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