Hairpin-and cruciform-mediated Chromosome breakage: Causes and consequences in eukaryotic cells

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4208-4220

  Lobachev, Kirill S ^a   Rattray, Alison ^b   Narayanan, Vidhya ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cruciform; Double strand breaks; Fragility; Genome instability; Hairpin; Palindrome; Rearrangements; Review; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONFORMATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; REVIEW;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 34347238951     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/2381     Document Type: Article

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