Abrogation of the CLK-2 checkpoint leads to tolerance to base-excision repair intermediates

EMBO Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1046-1051

  Dengg, Marlene ^a   Garcia Muse, Tatiana ^b   Gill, Stephen G ^c   Ashcroft, Neville ^c   Boulton, Simon J ^b   Nilsen, Hilde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHECKPOINT KINASE 2; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DNA; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; URACIL; URACIL DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA SYNTHESIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; DNA ADDUCTS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; URACIL; URACIL-DNA GLYCOSIDASE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33749245331     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400782     Document Type: Article

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