Trypanosoma brucei MRE11 is non-essential but influences growth, homologous recombination and DNA double-strand break repair

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 11-21

  Tan, Kevin S W ^a   Leal, Simone T G ^a   Cross, George A M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Growth; MRE11; Recombination; Telomere; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; MRE11 PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA TRANSFECTION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GROWTH; IONIZING RADIATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0036861063     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00165-2     Document Type: Article

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