Differing requirements for the Arabidopsis Rad51 paralogs in meiosis and DNA repair

Plant Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 533-545

  Bleuyard, Jean Yves ^a   Gallego, Maria E ^a   Savigny, Florence ^a   White, Charles I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Meiosis; RAD51B; RAD51C; Recombination; XRCC2

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSLINKING; DNA; ENZYMES; GAMMA RAYS;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA REPAIR; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; VERTEBRATES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ATRAD51 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MITOMYCIN; RAD51 PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA REPAIR; DRUG EFFECT; GAMMA RADIATION; GENETICS; INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GAMMA RAYS; INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MITOMYCIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BIODIVERSITY; CHROMOSOMES; CROSS LINKING; ENZYMES; GAMMA RAYS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 14644413615     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02318.x     Document Type: Article

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