The Bloom's syndrome helicase suppresses crossing over during homologous recombination

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6968, 2003, Pages 870-874

  Wu, Leonard ^a   Hickson, Ian O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENZYME KINETICS; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; TUMORS;

CELLULAR PHENOTYPES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

DNA TOPOISOMERASE; HELICASE;

MUTATION;

ARTICLE; BLOOM SYNDROME; CANCER INHIBITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BLOOM SYNDROME; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA HELICASES; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA, CRUCIFORM; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0347987856     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02253     Document Type: Article

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