Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mer2, Mei4 and Rec114 form a complex required for meiotic double-strand break formation

Genetics

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1969-1981

  Li, Jing ^a   Hooker, Gillian W ^a   Roeder, G Shirleen ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; PROTEIN MEI4; PROTEIN MER2; PROTEIN REC114; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DISSOCIATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 33747851978     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.058768     Document Type: Article

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