Recent advances in understanding of the DNA double-strand break repair machinery of plants

DNA Repair

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Bleuyard, Jean Yves ^a   Gallego, Maria E ^b   White, Charles I ^b  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Plant; Recombination

Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DMC1; PROTEIN MRE1 1; PROTEIN XRS2; RAD51 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MICRO HOMOLOGY MEDIATED END JOINING; NON HOMOLOGOUS END JOINING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 29244475344     PISSN: 15687864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.08.017     Document Type: Review

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