The role of AtMSH2 in homologous recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana

EMBO Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 100-105

  Emmanuel, Eyal ^a   Yehuda, Elizabeth ^a   Melamed Bessudo, Cathy ^a   Avivi Ragolsky, Naomi ^a   Levy, Avraham A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Genome stability; Meiotic recombination; Mismatch repair; Sequence divergence; Somatic recombination

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MSH2;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTYPE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DNA REPAIR; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 33646185177     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400577     Document Type: Article

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