Human meiotic recombinase Dmc1 promotes ATP-dependent homologous DNA strand exchange

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6990, 2004, Pages 433-437

  Sehorn, Michael G ^a   Sigurdsson, Stefan ^b   Bussen, Wendy ^b   Unger, Vinzenz M ^a   Sung, Patrick ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEATION; PROTEINS;

GENOME STABILITY; REPLICATION FACTORS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DMC1 RECOMBINASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; REPLICATION FACTOR A; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY; DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC STABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPLICATION PROTEIN A;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 2642537689     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02563     Document Type: Article

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