The Ku Heterodimer Performs Separable Activities at Double-Strand Breaks and Chromosome Termini

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 8202-8215

  Bertuch, Alison A ^a   Lundblad, Victoria ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; KU ANTIGEN; TELOMERASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; YEAST;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; DNA HELICASES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0141868298     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.22.8202-8215.2003     Document Type: Article

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