Transcription-dependent recombination and the role of fork collision in yeast rDNA

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1497-1506

  Takeuchi, Yasushi ^a   Horiuchi, Takashi ^a,b   Kobayashi, Takehiko ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Double strand break; Gene amplification; Life span; rDNA; Sister chromatid recombination; Transcription mediated recombination

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; AGING; ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION FORK; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FOB1 GENE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIFESPAN; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICATION FORK BARRIER; SISTER CHROMATID; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS; YEAST;

DNA REPLICATION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE DOSAGE; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE I; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YEASTS;

EID: 0038046165     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1085403     Document Type: Article

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