Double-strand breaks trigger MRX- and Mec1-dependent, but Tel1-independent, checkpoint activation

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 836-847

  Grenon, Muriel ^a,b   Magill, Christine P ^a   Lowndes, Noel F ^b   Jackson, Stephen P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cell cycle checkpoints; Double strand breaks (DSBs); EcoRI endonuclease; Mec1; Mre11 Rad50 Xrs2 complex; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; ENZYME; MEC1 PI3 KINASE ENZYME; MRE11 RAD50 XRS2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TEL1 PI3 KINASE ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

CELL CYCLE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DNA DAMAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 33745924670     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00076.x     Document Type: Article

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