The Rad50 hook domain is a critical determinant of Mre11 complex functions

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 403-407

  Wiltzius, Jed J W ^a   Hohl, Marcel ^a   Fleming, James C ^a   Petrini, John H J ^a  

^a Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MRE11 PROTEIN; RAD50 PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; FUNGAL DNA; LIGAND; MRE11 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RAD50 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; YEAST; CELL DIVISION; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CELL DIVISION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; LIGANDS; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TELOMERE;

EID: 20444468899     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb928     Document Type: Article

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