Genetic and cytological characterization of the RecA-homologous proteins Rad51 and Dmc1 of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Current Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 317-328

  Grishchuk, Alexandra L ^a   Kraehenbuehl, Rolf ^a   Molnar, Monika ^a   Fleck, Oliver ^a   Kohli, Juerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dmc1; Meiotic recombination; Rad51; Slow growth

Indexed keywords

DMC1 PROTEIN; EPITOPE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMATIN; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECA GENE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 1642432852     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-003-0439-7     Document Type: Article

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