Holliday junction resolution in human cells: Two junction endonucleases with distinct substrate specificities

EMBO Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 5577-5585

  Constantinou, Angelos ^a   Chen, Xiao Bo ^a   McGowan, Clare H ^a   West, Stephen C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Genome instability; Mus81; Recombination; Replication restart

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; PROTEIN MUS81; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ENDONUCLEASES; HELA CELLS; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION RESOLVASES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037107402     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdf554     Document Type: Article

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