A role for DNA polymerase μ in the emerging DJH rearrangements of the postgastrulation mouse embryo

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1266-1275

  Gozalbo López, Beatriz ^a   Andrade, Paula ^b   Terrados, Gloria ^b   De Andrés, Belén ^a   Serrano, Natalia ^a   Cortegano, Isabel ^b   Palacios, Beatriz ^a   Bernad, Antonio ^c   Blanco, Luis ^b   Marcos, Miguel A R ^b,d   Gaspar, María Luisa ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^d Campus de Cantoblanco   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; DNA POLYMERASE Μ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA POLYMERASE MU; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHOMOLOGOUS END JOINING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; POLYMERIZATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; DNA REPAIR; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; DNA REPAIR; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; MICE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 61749099622     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01518-08     Document Type: Article

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