RAD51C deficiency in mice results in early prophase I arrest in males and sister chromatid separation at metaphase II in females

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 176, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 581-592

  Kuznetsov, Sergey ^a   Pellegrini, Manuela ^b   Shuda, Kristy ^c   Fernandez Capetillo, Oscar ^b,g   Liu, Yilun ^d   Martin, Betty K ^a   Burkett, Sandra ^a   Southon, Eileen ^a   Pati, Debananda ^e   Tessarollo, Lino ^a   West, Stephen C ^d   Donovan, Peter J ^f,h   Nussenzweig, Andre ^b   Sharan, Shyam K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAD51 PROTEIN;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; FEMALE INFERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SISTER CHROMATID; SPERMATOCYTE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA, CRUCIFORM; FEMALE; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; METAPHASE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; OOCYTES; OVARY; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX FACTORS; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS;

MUS;

EID: 33847350610     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200608130     Document Type: Article

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