Contractions and expansions of CAG/CTG trinucleotide repeats occur during ectopic gene conversion in yeast, by a MUS81-independent mechanism

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 326, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 769-782

  Richard, Guy Franck ^a   Cyncynatus, Camille ^a   Dujon, Bernard ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Double strand break repair; Ectopic recombination; Meiosis; MUS81; Trinucleotide repeats

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MUS81 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037459055     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01405-5     Document Type: Article

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