Role of mammalian Mre11 in classical and alternative nonhomologous end joining

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 814-818

  Xie, Anyong ^a   Kwok, Amy ^a   Scully, Ralph ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2AX; MRE11 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHOMOLOGOUS END JOINING PATHWAY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTONES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 68249146431     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1640     Document Type: Article

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