RecQ helicases: Caretakers of the genome

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 169-178

  Hickson, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLOOM SYNDROME; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROTHMUND THOMSON SYNDROME; WERNER SYNDROME; ANIMAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTAGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BLOOM SYNDROME PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HELICASE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; RECQ HELICASE; RECQ PROTEIN, E COLI; RECQL PROTEIN, HUMAN; WRN PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BLOOM SYNDROME; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECQ HELICASES; ROTHMUND-THOMSON SYNDROME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0037364415     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1012     Document Type: Review

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