Fission yeast Rhp51 is required for the maintenance of telomere structure in the absence of the Ku heterodimer

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 5054-5063

  Kibe, Tatsuya ^a   Tomita, Kazunori ^a   Matsuura, Akira ^b   Izawa, Daisuke ^a   Kodaira, Tsutomu ^a   Ushimaru, Takashi ^a   Uritani, Masahiro ^a   Ueno, Masaru ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; GUANINE; KU ANTIGEN; RAD51 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE; WILD TYPE;

ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; DIMERIZATION; DNA HELICASES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; G2 PHASE; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; POLY G; PROTEIN BINDING; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; S PHASE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TELOMERE;

FUNGI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0345306567     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg718     Document Type: Article

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