RecQ helicases: Suppressors of tumorigenesis and premature aging

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 374, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 577-606

  Bachrati, Csanád Z ^a   Hickson, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer predisposition; Chromosomal instability; DNA repair; Progeroid syndrome; RecQ helicase; Topoisomerase

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEINS;

HELICASES;

TUMORS;

ENZYME; MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; MITOMYCIN C; PROTEIN; REC Q HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HELICASE; RECQ HELICASE; RECQL PROTEIN, HUMAN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MICROORGANISM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AGING, PREMATURE; ANIMALS; DNA HELICASES; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; RECQ HELICASES;

EID: 0141567744     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20030491     Document Type: Review

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