The Mus81 solution to resolution: Generating meiotic crossovers without Holliday junctions

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 117-125

  Hollingsworth, Nancy M ^a   Brill, Steven J ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MRE11 PROTEIN; PROTEIN MUS81; PROTEIN XRS2; RAD50 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSING OVER; DNA STRAND; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUS81 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; YEAST;

CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA REPAIR; DNA, CRUCIFORM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0942279596     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1165904     Document Type: Review

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