hMRE11 deficiency leads to microsatellite instability and defective DNA mismatch repair

EMBO Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 438-444

  Vo, Anthony T ^a   Zhu, Fengxue ^a   Wu, Xiling ^a   Yuan, Fenghua ^b   Gao, Yin ^b   Gu, Liya ^b   Li, Guo Min ^b   Lee, Tai Hsien ^a   Her, Chengtao ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA mismatch repair; hMLH1; hMRE11; HNPCC; Microsatellite instability

Indexed keywords

MRE11 PROTEIN; PROTEIN MLH1;

ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 19444379003     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400392     Document Type: Article

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