Loss of HR6B ubiquitin-conjugating activity results in damaged synaptonemal complex structure and increased crossing-over frequency during the male meiotic prophase

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1151-1162

  Baarends, Willy M ^a   Wassenaar, Evelyne ^a   Hoogerbrugge, Jos W ^a   Van Cappellen, Gert ^a   Roest, Henk P ^a   Vreeburg, Jan ^a   Ooms, Marja ^a   Hoeijmakers, Jan H J ^a   Grootegoed, J Anton ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME HR6A; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME HR6B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; DNA REPAIR; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFERTILITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPERMATOCYTE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DEATH; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA REPAIR; LIGASES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROPHASE; SPERMATOCYTES; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE; TESTIS; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037315770     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.4.1151-1162.2003     Document Type: Article

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