The RAD6/BRE1 histone modification pathway in Saccharomyces confers radiation resistance through a RAD51-dependent process that is independent of RAD18

Genetics

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1951-1968

  Game, John C ^a   Williamson, Marsha S ^a   Spicakova, Tatiana ^b   Brown, J Martin ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HISTONE; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN BRE1; PROTEIN DOT1; PROTEIN RAD18; RAD51 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; EPISTASIS; FUNGUS MUTANT; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; IONIZING RADIATION; MEIOSIS; METHYLATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SACCHAROMYCES; SURVIVAL; UBIQUITINATION; WILD TYPE; X RAY;

DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; G1 PHASE; GENE DELETION; HISTONES; METHYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES;

SACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 33747850772     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.057794     Document Type: Article

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