Mechanism of trinucleotide repeats instabilities: The necessities of repeat non-B secondary structure formation and the roles of cellular trans-acting factors

Acta Genetica Sinica

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-11

  Pan, Xue Feng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Expansion and contraction instability; Fragility; Human neurological muscular disease; Trans acting factor; Trinucleotide repeats

Indexed keywords

TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; KENNEDY DISEASE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OCULOPHARYNGEAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; YEAST;

ATAXIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 31344437231     PISSN: 03794172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-4172(06)60001-2     Document Type: Review

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