Competition between the Rad50 complex and the Ku heterodimer reveals a role for exo1 in processing double-strand breaks but not telomeres

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 5186-5197

  Tomita, Kazunori ^a   Matsuura, Akira ^b   Caspari, Thomas ^e   Carr, Antony M ^e   Akamatsu, Yufuko ^c   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^c   Mizuno, Ken Ichi ^d   Ohta, Kunihiro ^d   Uritani, Masahiro ^a   Ushimaru, Takashi ^a   Yoshinaga, Koichi ^a   Ueno, Masaru ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ISOPROTEIN; KU ANTIGEN; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN EXO1; RAD50 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; FUNGAL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE;

ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CHROMATIN; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAMMA RAYS; GENE DELETION; METHYL METHANESULFONATE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TELOMERE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0042991423     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.15.5186-5197.2003     Document Type: Article

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