Chapter 2 DNA-PK. The Means to Justify the Ends?

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 99, Issue , 2008, Pages 33-58

  Meek, Katheryn ^a   Dang, Van ^a   Lees Miller, Susan P ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; DNA BINDING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; PHOSPHORYLATION;

EID: 57949116437     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: 15578445     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2776(08)00602-0     Document Type: Review

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