DNA helicases required for homologous recombination and repair of damaged replication forks

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2006, Pages 279-306

  Wu, Leonard ^a   Hickson, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D loops; Double strand break repair; Holliday junction dissolution; RecQ family; Synthesis dependent strand annealing

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE;

DNA DAMAGE; DNA METABOLISM; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33751426143     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.40.110405.090636     Document Type: Review

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