RecQ family helicases in genome stability: Lessons from gene disruption studies in DT40 cells

Cell Cycle

Volumn 7, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2472-2478

  Seki, Masayuki ^a   Otsuki, Makoto ^a   Ishii, Yutaka ^b   Tada, Shusuke ^a   Enomoto, Takemi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHUJITSU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bloom syndrome; Homologous recombination; RecQ; Rothmund Thomson syndrome; Werner syndrome

Indexed keywords

RECQ HELICASE;

AGING; BLM GENE; BLOOM SYNDROME; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID METABOLISM; PANCREAS CANCER; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECQL1 GENE; RECQL4 GENE; RECQL5 GENE; REVIEW; ROTHMUND THOMSON SYNDROME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WERNER SYNDROME; WRN GENE;

EUKARYOTA; MUS;

EID: 49749148494     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.7.16.6462     Document Type: Review

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