Molecular views of recombination proteins and their control

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 435-445

  West, Stephen C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; NUCLEOPROTEIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; REPLICATION PROTEIN A; RNA POLYMERASE;

CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0038700698     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1127     Document Type: Review

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