The functions of budding yeast Sae2 in the DNA damage response require Mec1- and Tel1-dependent phosphorylation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 4151-4165

  Baroni, Enrico ^a   Viscardi, Valeria ^a   Cartagena Lirola, Hugo ^a   Lucchini, Giovanna ^a   Longhese, Maria Pia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHECKPOINT KINASE 1; CHECKPOINT KINASE 2; DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN SAE 2; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DDC 1; PROTEIN MEC 1; PROTEIN RAD 17; PROTEIN RAD 24; PROTEIN TEL 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BLEOMYCIN; FUNGAL DNA; MEC1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SAE2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TEL1 PROTEIN, FUNGAL; TEL1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE MUTATION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; BLEOMYCIN; CELL CYCLE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 2942594756     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.10.4151-4165.2004     Document Type: Article

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