Similarity of the Domain Structure of Proteins as a Basis for the Conservation of Meiosis1

International Review of Cytology

Volumn 257, Issue , 2007, Pages 83-142

  Bogdanov, Yu F ^a   Grishaeva, T M ^a   Dadashev, S Ya ^a  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

3D structure; Cohesins; Connexins; Innexins; Meiosis; Nuclear pore complex; Protein domains; Recombination; Self assembly; SMC proteins; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; COHESIN; CROSSOVER SUPPRESSOR ON 3 OF GOWEN PROTEIN; DMC1 PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; ZIP1 PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOINFORMATICS; CENTROMERE; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RICE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; YEAST;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 33846612864     PISSN: 00747696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7696(07)57003-8     Document Type: Review

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