A new recombinational DNA repair gene from Schizosaccharomyces pombe with homology to Escherichia coli RecA

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1557-1572

  Khasanov, Fuat K ^a   Savchenko, Galina V ^a   Bashkirova, Elena V ^b   Korolev, Vladimir G ^c   Heyer, Wolf Dietrich ^b,d   Bashkirov, Vladimir I ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; IONIZING RADIATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0344246905     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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