ATM promotes the obligate XY crossover and both crossover control and chromosome axis integrity on autosomes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Barchi, Marco ^a,e   Roig, Ignasi ^a   Di Giacomo, Monica ^a,f   De Rooij, Dirk G ^b,c   Keeney, Scott ^a,d   Jasin, Maria ^a,d  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; PROTEIN MLH1; SPO11 PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESTERASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA DAMAGE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOCYTE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESTERASES; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPERMATOCYTES; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 44949130714     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000076     Document Type: Article

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