Holliday junctions in the eukaryotic nucleus: Resolution in sight?

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 548-557

  Heyer, Wolf Dietrich ^a   Ehmsen, Kirk T ^a   Solinger, Jachen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE; ENDONUCLEASE; HELICASE; INTEGRASE; NUCLEASE; PROTEIN MUS81; RECA PROTEIN; RESOLVASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL CYCLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CROSSING OVER; DNA METABOLISM; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST; ALLELE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE;

ARACHNIDA; ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0347571776     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2003.08.011     Document Type: Review

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