Checkpoint silencing during the DNA damage response in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 172, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 999-1008

  Holway, Antonia H ^a   Kim, Seung Hwan ^a   La Volpe, Adriana ^b   Michael, W Matthew ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; HELMINTH DNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GEI 17 GENE; GENE; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELL; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; POLH 1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAD 2 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOCHALASIN B; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENES, CDC; GERM CELLS; HYDROXYUREA; LIGASES; METHYL METHANESULFONATE; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN KINASES; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINASES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERMES;

EID: 33645293158     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200512136     Document Type: Article

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