The Mre11 complex: At the crossroads of DNA repair and checkpoint signalling

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 317-327

  D'Amours, Damien ^a   Jackson, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MRE11 PROTEIN; NIBRIN; NUCLEASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN XRS2; RAD50 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; MEIOSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, CDC; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERE;

EID: 0036276388     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm805     Document Type: Review

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