Insights into DNA recombination from the structure of a RAD51-BRCA2 complex

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6913, 2002, Pages 287-293

  Pellegrini, Luca ^a   Yu, David S ^a   Lo, Thomas ^a   Anand, Shubha ^a   Lee, MiYoung ^a   Blundell, Tom L ^a   Venkitaraman, Ashok R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; MUTAGENESIS; OLIGOMERS; TUMORS;

CONSERVED SEQUENCES;

DNA;

BRCA2 PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID;

EID: 2242443513     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01230     Document Type: Article

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