Dna Mismatch Repair: Molecular Mechanisms and Biological Function

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2003, Pages 579-608

  Schofield, Mark J ^a   Hsieh, Peggy ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Mutagenesis; MutL; MutS; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MMR PROTEIN; MSH2P PROTEIN; MSH3P PROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TEMOZOLOMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKYLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSSING OVER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE CONVERSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MISMATCH REPAIR; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; YEAST;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

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

EID: 0242442569     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090847     Document Type: Review

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