Germline expression of mammalian CTF18, an evolutionarily conserved protein required for germ cell proliferation in the fly and sister chromatid cohesion in yeast

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 143-150

  Berkowitz, Karen M ^a   Kaestner, Klaus H ^a   Jongens, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CTF18; CTF18 replication factor C like complex; DNA replication; Germ cell development; Germline expression

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; REPLICATION FACTOR C; REPLICATION FACTOR CTF18; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SISTER CHROMATID; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIDS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TESTIS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 40949143556     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gan005     Document Type: Article

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