Mechanism of homologous recombination: Mediators and helicases take on regulatory functions

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 739-750

  Sung, Patrick ^a   Klein, Hannah ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN; HELICASE; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; BLOOM SYNDROME; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME; CROSSING OVER; DNA BINDING; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FANCONI ANEMIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BLOOM SYNDROME; DNA HELICASES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33749037701     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2008     Document Type: Review

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