ATR: An essential regulator of genome integrity

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 616-627

  Cimprich, Karlene A ^a   Cortez, David ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; ATR PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CELL VIABILITY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 47749141560     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2450     Document Type: Review

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