Yeast Mre11 and Rad1 Proteins Define a Ku-Independent Mechanism to Repair Double-Strand Breaks Lacking Overlapping End Sequences

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 8820-8828

  Ma, Jia Lin ^a   Kim, Eun Mi ^a   Haber, James E ^b   Lee, Sang Eun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; KU ANTIGEN; PROTEIN MRE 11; PROTEIN RAD 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GAMMA RADIATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZING RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TERMINAL SEQUENCE;

ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA HELICASES; DNA LIGASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ENDONUCLEASES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENES, FUNGAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0242468933     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.23.8820-8828.2003     Document Type: Article

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