SRS2 and SGS1 prevent chromosomal breaks and stabilize triplet repeats by restraining recombination

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-167

  Kerrest, Alix ^a   Anand, Ranjith P ^b   Sundararajan, Rangapriya ^b   Bermejo, Rodrigo ^c   Liberi, Giordano ^c   Dujon, Bernard ^a   Freudenreich, Catherine H ^b   Richard, Guy Franck ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FIRC INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD52 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL EXPANSION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SGS1 GENE; SRS2 GENE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; YEAST CELL;

CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RECQ HELICASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 59649119505     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1544     Document Type: Article

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