Recombination proteins in yeast

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue , 2004, Pages 233-271

  Krogh, Berit Olsen ^a   Symington, Lorraine S ^a  

^a Columbia University Irving Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Double strand break repair; Holliday junction resolution; RAD52 epistasis group; Replication fork collapse

Indexed keywords

DMC1 PROTEIN; DNA ANNEALING PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HELICASE; MMS4 NUCLEASE; MUS81 NUCLEASE; NUCLEASE; NUCLEOPROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD52 PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RESOLVASE; RESOLVASE A; SRS2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOME INTEGRITY; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; IONIZING RADIATION; MEIOSIS; MRE11 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RAD50 GENE; RAD51 GENE; RAD52 GENE; RAD54 GENE; RAD55 GENE; RAD57 GENE; RAD59 GENE; RDH54 GENE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SINGLE STRANDED ANNEALING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TID1 GENE; XRS2 GENE; YEAST;

DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; YEASTS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 10344263324     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.38.072902.091500     Document Type: Review

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