Sae2p phosphorylation is crucial for cooperation with Mre11p for resection of DNA double-strand break ends during meiotic recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 209-217

  Terasawa, Masahiro ^a   Ogawa, Tomoko ^a   Tsukamoto, Yasumasa ^a   Ogawa, Hideyuki ^a  

^a Iwate College of Nursing   (Japan)

Author keywords

DSB end resection; Meiotic recombination; Mre11; Sae2

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MEC1 PROTEIN KINASE; MRE11 PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; RAD50 PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SAE2 PROTEIN; TEL1 PROTEIN KINASE; XRS2 PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE MUTATION; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 48949086355     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.83.209     Document Type: Article

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