DNA double-strand break repair from head to tail

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 115-122

  Hopfner, Karl Peter ^a   Putnam, Christopher D ^b   Tainer, John A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ISOPROTEIN; KU ANTIGEN; MRE11 PROTEIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN XRCC4; RAD50 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW;

EID: 0036469066     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(02)00297-X     Document Type: Review

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