Control of translocations between highly diverged genes by Sgs1, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae homolog of the Bloom's syndrome protein

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 5406-5420

  Schmidt, Kristina H ^a,b   Wu, Joann ^a   Kolodner, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; CHECKPOINT KINASE 2; DNA; HELICASE RRM3; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN ASF1; PROTEIN CAC1; PROTEIN MEC1; PROTEIN MEC3; PROTEIN RAD24; PROTEIN RAD9; PROTEIN RFC5; PROTEIN SGS1; RECQ HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOM SYNDROME; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METABOLISM; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTHMUND THOMSON SYNDROME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SGS1 GENE; WERNER SYNDROME;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, BASIC; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOM SYNDROME; DNA HELICASES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33745872612     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00161-06     Document Type: Article

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