Repair of double-strand breaks by nonhomologous end joining in the absence of Mre11

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 171, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 765-771

  Di Virgilio, Michela ^a   Gautier, Jean ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; KU ANTIGEN; MRE11 PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; RAD50 PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; OOCYTES; PROTEIN BINDING; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 28544436537     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200506029     Document Type: Article

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